Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking heart, 27 department store operators got together to squelch union demands for a 35-hour week. Negotiations also stalled between unions and chain grocery store operators on the same issue. When the potent Waterfront Employers Association indicated it would adopt a strong line when its members' contracts with C.I.O. longshoremen expire September 30, gloomy San Franciscans (already faced with a shortage of drugs and liquor by the warehouse shutdown) began reminiscing about the 1934 General Strike...
...century and more ago when census takers began to go through the ghettos of German cities, Jews were obliged for the first time to adopt surnames. Sometimes allowed to pick, they chose names of the prettiest things that they could think of-Goldstein (nugget of gold), Rosenblum (blossom of the rose), etc. Last week the German Government again decreed that Jews would have to take names, not cognomens but praenomina, and told them what names to take. The decree ordered that any German Jew who has not an Old Testament given name which identifies his race must before next January...
...hope of spiritual or material reward (TIME, Dec. 27). By last week, 50,000 Catholics were thronging the church on Fridays and novenas were being installed in churches throughout the U. S. as fast as the Servites-whose permission, willingly granted, had to be asked before a church could adopt the ritual-were able to get around to direct the opening services. The seven Servite Stations are devoted to the sorrows of Mary, whereas the usual 14 Stations are devoted to the Passion of Christ...
...freed him from jail, made him governor. Although the scheme worked well enough then, it has taken thousands of years, millions of dollars and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to put it on the grand scale. After four years Secretary Wallace finally succeeded in getting Congress to adopt the plan in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. Last week his emissary to the International Wheat Conference in London ambitiously proposed putting the granary plan on a world-wide basis...
...Since the surplus of men living in residence who cannot be provided for in the Houses should be reduced to a more normal figure next year, it seems unwise to adopt any policy at this time which might lessen the general effectiveness of the Houses, such as the provision for associate members or the guarantee of admission to all Juniors and Seniors," Dean Hanford said in his report...