Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders among the electors last week sought for a label by which they might designate the unity movement. "Protestant" and "evangelical" they decided against since their projected Council would include Anglicans and Eastern Catholics. "Non-Roman," they felt, implied opposition to the Roman Catholic Church. So they decided to adopt and popularize the word "ecumenical," from the Greek meaning "the inhabited world...
...Roosevelt asked for the item-veto power, added with unusual deference to the Constitution: "A respectable difference of opinion exists as to whether . . . item-veto power could be given to the President by legislation or whether a Constitutional amendment would be necessary. I strongly recommend that the present Congress adopt whichever course it may deem to be the correct...
Venerable Mother Soong therefore told General Chiang that if he would become a Christian he could marry her attractive, Wellesley-graduated Meiling. The Conqueror replied that he would not adopt a new religion merely to win a bride, but that if Miss Soong would marry him he would agree to study Christianity, and then do as he saw fit. No ordained Christian pastor could be found who thought General Chiang free to marry Miss Soong, so a lay Y.M.C.A. secretary united them in holy matrimony. From the day General Chiang thus took his No. 2 wife, both his character...
...pictures, vaudeville and burlesque shows. If left alone a child will instinctively enjoy beauty and good drama. It is the adult who makes a disparaging remark about the dullness of opera and makes fun of so-called 'highbrow' music and the dance, who influences the child to adopt the same attitude...
...response to notice from shapely, 23-year-old Cinemactress Dorothy Lamour, wife of an orchestra leader, that she would quit films Dec. 10, 1938, to lay plans to have a child, Paramount suggested that she compromise, adopt one. She declined. Ivan F. Cox, deposed secretary-treasurer of Harry Bridges' San Francisco longshoremen's union, filed suit against 5,000 Jane & John Does, Longshoreman Bridges and other union officials, Cinemactors Fredric March, Franchot Tone, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Lionel Stander, Jean Muir, and Director William Dieterle. Charge: Led by Cinemactor March, the group had conspired to propagate Communism...