Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...good majority of citizens of this country accept as axiomatic the statement that this nation should be classless. They freely admit that hereditary rights are strictly limited to private property, and that even the inheritance of private property, does not carry with its undue privileges. Certainly it is a principle of this republic that the inheritance of private property shall not determine the opportunity for education nor its hope...
...inventor from California who has spent half of his time since 1921 in Europe McClatchie recently wrote "The Dictator" as a protest against the Administration's foreign policy. He said that because no publisher would accept his material, he had a few copies of the book mimeographed to be distributed among local book sellers...
...Must we not accept the responsibility that, fully armed and prepared to fight if need be, we must become a responsible power in the world, that we must in collaboration with the others who hold roughly our same ideals, organize a large portion of the civilized world in such a way that we may continue to prosper as a national unity and develop the potentialities of our nation...
...which had declared for him along with most of French Equatorial Africa, straight from his failure at Dakar. Despite that fiasco, he still had hope. Said he: "I cite Hitler's words from Mein Kampf that a people may be beaten, but when a people and their leaders accept defeat, then they are forever lost. On the other hand, if a handful of men do not accept defeat, everything is to be hoped for. The Cameroons will have a place in the history of this war and the history of the nation...
...destroyers to England in exchange for a few naval bases. The destroyers have made their journey and have forgotten. Whether the barter was constitutional has never been settled upon by any branch of the government except the executive. The Congress, supposedly the representative body of the nation, had to accept the trade. Mr. Roosevelt seemed to ignore the Neutrality Law which definitely states that the United States is a neutral nation and will not give any military aid to a warring country. Congress passed this act and Congress had the vote of the people behind it. The boats were only...