Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would the British accept? Wrote Streit with confidence: "The British consider such a proposition practicable and await only our invitation...
...takes the power, it will have to take the responsibility. It will have to show a willingness, not hitherto apparent, to deal in world problems firmly and sensibly. And in doing so, it must also, as Britain has done, accept the odium of being top dog in the world. In that event, the U. S. can no longer afford to have its external policies subject to the whims of internal politics. It must think in world terms and regardless of quarrels about what party should be in power at home, it must acquire the tradition of carrying on a strong...
...Both Messrs. Taft and Gannett showed campaign movies, but found few takers for such 16 mm. cinema. Of the ten candidates, only Mr. Gannett, a Dry who will not accept beer advertising in his 17 newspapers, formally served free liquor to callers. Only Mr. Gannett hung the hotel lobby and the uncomplaining streets with 15-foot portraits of himself, in color...
...been widowed once, is now married to the former Cornelia Morton, who was told of her husband's nomination while she was in a Salem grocery store. Said Mrs. McNary: "I couldn't believe it. Charles had wired me this morning that he wouldn't accept the nomination...
...High taxes based on high property assessments have been driving mortgage-holding institutions to accept sacrifice prices in order to clear their books of doubtful "assets" in foreclosed property. From January through May, unloaded Manhattan properties had plummeted from 80.6% to 73.3% of their assessed values. (Yet New York State Superintendent of Insurance Louis H. Pink, "handling the largest real-estate investment liquidation program in the history of this country," declared that 80% of those investing through New York certificate-issuing houses had not lost a cent...