Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allocation of costs on TVA dams and reservoirs-between navigation, flood control, national defense, agriculture and power-Director Lilienthal tried to make TVA adopt the "byproduct" theory of power development, which would make the power look extremely cheap. "But for the power issue, the TVA dams never would have been built. To deny that is sheer hypocrisy . . . Mr. Lilienthal's byproduct theory is a subterfuge...
...should at once appoint a small commission to study the proper function of the real-estate man in an organized society, and to formulate a policy. . . . We could then refuse to deal with real-estate men who refuse to adopt that policy...
Hard pressed to find money to finance the Third Reich's armament race. Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring last week prepared to adopt outright thievery as an economy policy. The multi-uniformed economic dictator signed a decree providing for confiscation of practically all Jewish property throughout Greater Germany...
Harvard has refused to adopt any of the fashions now current at some law schools. Yale takes great pride in disavowing the Harvard method of studying the historical and organic development of legal concepts rather than their "practical" value in modern law offices and courts. Boast is also made by Yale of the value of small classes in which there is close association between teacher and student. But, no matter how attractive on paper, the ultimate value of any scheme must be considered in the light of the ability and personality of the faculty which is to administer...
...Harrison and Bob Doughton, chairmen respectively of Senate Finance and House Ways & Means Committees, members of which were starting the ticklish job of compromising between the two tax bills passed by their respective chambers, he dispatched a 1,000-word letter, recommending in effect that the conference adopt the House bill which, unlike the Senate's, retains at least a portion of the Administration's pet undistributed profits and capital gains tax. Excerpt: "The repeal of the undistributed profits tax and the reduction of the tax on capital gains to a fraction of the tax on other forms...