Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corruption in 192, and it was even harder to stomach the interference from Washington in the 1933 campaign, when an administration candidate, Joseph McKee split the ticket wide open and led to a Fusion victory. But to add insult to injury only last fall an enlightened electorate voted to adopt an entirely new charter, the final fruit of Judge Seabury's investigations, doing away with the great Tammany stronghold, the Board of Aldermen, in favor of a City Council, and setting up a system of proportional representation, so that no one party could in future gain complete domination...
Stalin launched the Second Five-Year Plan which is now under way, says Mr. Lyons, by having the Soviet parliament adopt measures which "redefined Socialism to mean merely state monopoly of all branches of economy-a feudalistic serf 'socialism' undreamed of by socialist theorists and philosophers and agitators before the Soviet...
...Munn," Mr. Hillyer discusses the conflict within him between the poet and the academic scholar. Also there are letters to Bernard De Vote, Peyton Randolph Campbell, Queen Nefertiti, and the author's son. Only in "A Letter to Queen Nefertiti" does he abandon his pleasantly familiar tone and adopt a more racy and a more lyrical theme...
...Government, under the all embracing tutelage of the New Deal, has persuaded or coerced hard boiled business men of large industrial companies to adopt and conform to the Social Security Act, but Harvard should not put itself in the position where people may say, that the University put through its pension plan under pressure of public opinion...
...just about everyone except Japanese apologists, the reasons why Japan acted when and as she did this year in China are three, and they are pikestaff plain: 1) Japan saw the U. S. adopt a Neutrality Act well-meaning but sufficiently cockeyed for experts to agree that its legal meshes would hamper China greatly, Japan scarcely at all; 2) Japan saw the Soviet war machine suddenly weakened by Stalin's shooting of its ablest commanders; 3) the Spanish Civil War and Mediterranean mixup have so tangled Great Britain that Japan does not fear today Far East intervention...