Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week, at Elwood, Ind., Wendell Willkie accepted the Republican nomination for President of the U. S. Bigger than the story of his acceptance was the story of the crowd at Elwood that swarmed in, 200,000 strong, to make the biggest political rally in U. S. history-three times as big as the one that heard Alf Landon's acceptance, twice as big as the one that heard Franklin Roosevelt accept in 1936 at Philadelphia's Franklin Field. On the quiet Indiana town that normally holds 10,000 people the crowd moved like some vast, unregimented, good...
...wiser than he was in 1928 when he was elected Governor of New York. When Postmaster General Farley resigned (National Chairman Farley had already quit) to go to work for the New York Yankees and Coca-Cola, a hint of human regret tinged Mr. Roosevelt's reply: "I accept with real regret . . . sincere sorrow. . . . All of us . . . will miss you deeply. . . . I need not tell you that you have always my affectionate regards...
...King, from King to Popoff, Ambassador Cadere went, now with a warning, now with a concession, begging the retention of the important city of Silistra, asking reparations for public works. At a moment when Rumania seemed to stiffen, Hungary ominously growled from another quarter that she would accept no less than 75% of Transylvania. Rumania backed down...
...Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli. Papal Secretary of State. The other was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last year Cardinal Pacelli became Pope Pius XII. Last Christmas President Roosevelt, striving to halt World War II, recalled their talk of peace on earth. To the Pope he wrote: "In their hearts men decline to accept for long the law of destruction forced upon them by wielders of brute force. Always they seek . . . to find again the faith without which the welfare of nations and the peace of the world cannot be rebuilt." To the Vatican as his special envoy he sent Steelman Myron C. Taylor...
...indicated through their actions last week which "mysticism" Petain France endorsed. "Germany invites us to reconstruct Europe," wrote Rightist Deputy Fernand-Laurent in Le Jour. "I do not hesitate to say that to the extent that French interests, our independence and our dignity are safeguarded, the new France must accept this invitation." Neither independence nor dignity was so much in evidence as a disposition to curry favor with the conquerors by wreaking vengeance on the Frenchmen who had tried to prevent the conquest...