Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...vain foes of the amendment argued that it would open the House to the charge of playing politics with defense, that no one would be drafted until after Election Day anyway. When Georgia's Edward Eugene ("Goober'') Cox exclaimed of the amendment: "To accept it would convince the people of this country that the membership of this House is only an aggregation of self-serving politicians," its fate in a House of 435 politicians was sealed. The amendment was adopted 185-to-155. More notable to many a Representative was the sight of Republican National Chairman...
Henry Wallace stood last week on the cornstalk-decorated stage of the Coliseum in Des Moines to undergo what was a political ordeal for a shy man-to accept the Democratic nomination for Vice President. His unruly hair combed back for a change, his wide features expanding in a boyish grin, he beamed on the crowd in a way that made it unmistakable-it was a great occasion for him. The crowd of 7,000 to 8,000, almost filling the Coliseum, roared back, waved banners WELCOME HOME, HANK and WHO WANTS WINDY WENDELL WILLKIE...
...continual bother of solicitation by many local charities is avoided by the Council's agreement with these organizations that they will accept donations from it and forego personal convassing. These donations are made possible by students' contributions...
Dear Harry said nothing about moving out of the White House, where he has lived since last May. Washington thought he would almost certainly help in the campaign, thought he might accept the post of librarian of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park...
...Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, announced-in his own inimitably impersonal language-that the U. S. will no longer accept as accredited representatives of foreign countries any agents to whom other American nations have seen fit to give the boot...