Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ousted ex-Premier Ismet Inonu was slated to be elected last week president (speaker) of the Grand National Assembly, which was slated to adopt a new Turkish constitution. But events proved how little even the best informed Turks know the mind of their masterly Father. An obscure wheelhorse, Abdulhalik Renda was re-elected to the Assembly's presidency, and its members listened in vain for Kamal Ataturk to mention a new constitution...
...adopt a policy of strict industrial unionism not only for mass production workers but also for maritime, service, public utility and basic fabricating industries; 2) formation of an autonomous "C.I.O. department" within A.F. of L. with sole jurisdiction over industrial unions; 3) a joint A.F. of L.-C.I.O. national convention to ratify the agreement...
...Longview, Wash., describing her sterilizations as "the finest service to society the Girls' Industrial School has ever contributed." Said Chairman William H. Burke of Kansas' current board.of administration: "It has not been the policy nor will it be the future policy of the present board to adopt sterilization measures . . . unless in such extreme, obvious and isolated instances as to leave not the slightest question or doubt as to its justification...
This meant that Russia had balked completely at adopting the plan the others were ready to adopt, and dispatches excitedly rumored that at this point Britain, France, Germany and Italy would act in the spirit of their Four-Power Pact signed in 1933 and settle the question without Russia. Just arrived in London from Rome, where he had conferred at length with Premier Mussolini, was the German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, chief confidant of the Führer on foreign affairs. He surprised the Nonintervention Committee by declaring that Germany demanded it act in unanimity-that is, fail...
...Italy intends to hold the Balearic Islands after the Spanish war is over to be "unfounded"; 2) That he accepts "as being given in good faith" Italian assurances that Italy has "no territorial or strategic or even economic designs on Spain." Pointing to Premier Mussolini's consent to adopt the British scheme of July 14 and immediately make "token withdrawals" of Italians from Spain as evidence of the Tightness of these conclusions, the Prime Minister voiced his own pious hope that the last volunteer will soon be withdrawn. He then asked a vote of confidence on the foreign policy...