Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grounds for postponing consideration of antilynching. Said he of the undistributed profits tax, "Let's repeal it today. . . . Even the President says it isn't working. ..." Aware that any plan to do anything about taxation must originate in the House, enthusiastic Senator Bailey proposed that the Senate adopt a resolution "to repeal this tax just as soon as we get something from the House to which we can attach a repealer...
...statesmen of the Great Powers.* The so-called "Big Three"-Their Excellencies Norman Davis of Washington, Anthony Eden of London and Yvon Delbos of Paris-decided to wind up the Conference at once if possible, joined in drafting for this purpose a resolution in which the Conference was to adopt toward Japan an attitude of purely verbal ostracism with these words: "It is clear that the Japanese concept of the issues and interests involved in the conflict under reference is vitally different from the concept of most other nations in 'he world...
...President Roosevelt as saying, that the sanctity of treaties must be upheld, all completely ignored Dr. Koo's plea that it be upheld, none proposed any measure to uphold it. With Italy voting "no" and with Norway, Sweden and Denmark abstaining, the rest of the Conference voted to adopt the Davis-Eden-Delbos motion, and the Conference adjourned to Nov. 22. Mr. Eden, enraged because the British Cabinet had just gone over his head in deciding to send Lord Halifax to Berlin to confer with Hitler, (see p. 22), rushed back to London in the state of overexcitement which...
What President Roosevelt apparently wants is for the utilities to adopt the prudent investment basis voluntarily. Among the specific cases the President gave to point his moral was a ferryman on the Thames during Queen Elizabeth's reign. Under common law she could have valued the boat at $500, if that was its worth, and based his rates accordingly. If he had paid $1,000 for the boat, it was his own error and loss. Another Roosevelt example was a run-down electric plant in Georgia with a few miles of line, a few decrepit boilers worth...
...death of a crop control program far older and far bigger than any ever attempted by the New Deal. With a suddenness which upset coffee cups all over the world the Brazilian Government announced that it would abandon its 31-year attempt to limit coffee production, would adopt instead a policy of open competition...