Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Offering to postpone action for higher rates designed to offset soaring taxes, Mr. Carlisle proposed that the electrical subsidiaries of Consolidated Gas adopt the so-called Washington Plan for progressive rate reductions, with an immediate cut as a starter...
...heavily tapestried, rococo boardroom of the 34-story New York Life Insurance Building in Manhattan, Director Alfred Emanuel Smith leaned forward in his chair one day last week and said in a firm clear voice: "I move to adopt the committee's report nominating Mr. Hoover." With a single chorus of "Ayes" all gentlemen present thereupon voted to elect Herbert Clark Hoover a director of New York Life, succeeding the late John E. Andrus (TIME, Jan. 7). From Chicago where he was transacting private business on one of his infrequent trips east from Palo Alto, Director Hoover telegraphed...
...basis for future action, however, one might describe this policy by the same word with which President Conant has described the present status of the S.B. degree, "absurd." To adopt a discriminatory measure of any sort even for the commendable purpose of simplifying administrative machinery cannot find justification...
...answered by University Hall is "How much money, exclusive of that provided by the Buckley fund, is distributed to graduates of Cambridge schools?" If the sum "is meager if not non-existent," then the University has been putting on a front with "Other People's Money," to adopt a caption used by the CRIMSON in an editorial last year flaying Cambridge politicians for exercising with the tax-exemption problem. On the other hand, if the figure be substantial then the point of your editorial is evident--that "from the number assisted and the amounts received" the Buckley fund...
Debate concerning the course which the Council will adopt at its most-discussed and most dramatic meeting in several years was rife tonight when the news became known. Two things are fairly clear, however. Not only the recount but the elections an the facts concerning the elections will undergo close scrutiny. It may also be regarded as certain that Gundlach and Bowditch will abide by any decision the Council may make...