Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angry because Russia has sent not a single Red Army bomber to aid them, 17 newly organized Socialist and Communist battalions about to leave for the front last week paused in Madrid to adopt this startling resolution: "Stalin has deserted to the Fascist camp! He is trying to sabotage the Spanish workers as in the past he wrecked the chances of Chinese, Austrian and German proletarians. Down with Stalin...
...until 1813 did the increasing number of graduates make it necessary for Harvard to adopt a single format and make up an engraved plate from which the diplomas could...
...Democratic high command of 1936 was doing was to adopt the successful tactics which local Democratic machines in the big cities of the North have independently developed in the last ten years. Before that time any Negro who voted Democratic was threatened with social ostracism if not bodily harm by Republican members of his race. No respectable Negro congregation would dream of allowing a Democratic political meeting to be held in its church. Moreover most Negro politicians were subservient blackamoors who sold their flocks to this or that white Republican faction paying the highest price...
Until last week the All-Union Soviet Congress was scheduled to meet next month and adopt a new Soviet Constitution (TIME, June 15). Abruptly this date was postponed to Nov. 25 and citizens throughout vast Russia were invited to send suggestions for improving the Constitution's draft text. As it stood temporarily last week, Russia's proposed new charter aimed to correct such abuses as the Soviet's present suppression of free speech and freedom of the press, spying upon citizens' mail and failure to provide either universal suffrage or secrecy of the ballot. Chairman...
Three factions divided the Left Wing of U. S. politics. Biggest and strongest of the three was the Left's Left headed by Norman Thomas, twice Socialist nominee for President. This faction two years ago, after a bitter struggle, got the party to adopt a radical platform including "mass resistance" to war, last year agreed to a "united front" with Communists in such specific matters as May Day parades, demonstrations against Fascism and support of the unemployed. The Left's Left went to Cleveland last week already in control of the party's National Executive Committee...