Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose heroine Mark Twain called "the dearest and most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." An orphan from the orphanage, Anne Shirley finds herself unwanted when she turns up at the farm of Matthew (0. P. Heggie) and Marilla (Helen Westley), who had expected to adopt a boy. Her ready smile and winning impudence soon earn her the affection of her foster-parents and all goes well until she falls in love with Gilbert (Tom Brown) whose mother, as a girl, had jilted Matthew. It is a characteristic of the lavender-&-old-lace-school...
Since its first national convention in St. Paul last summer the American Newspaper Guild has made friends here, enemies there. It got the Associated Press to adopt a five-day week, failed to win general pay rises from the Cleveland News. It won concessions on hours, wages and job-security from Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, failed to get a written contract. It won a pipsqueak boycott against the Jamaica Long Island Press, suffered sharp internal pains because some Guild elements objected to the "labor union tendencies" of President Heywood Broun...
...Quick to adopt each new improvement in fire-fighting apparatus, the successors of Truckson La France branched into chemical fire wagons, doubled their business when fire trucks were motorized. They opened a plant in New Jersey to manufacture regular commercial trucks, had to abandon it when Mack Truck and others retaliated by invading the fire apparatus field. Just before Depression American-La France bought out Foamite-Childs Corp. of Utica, makers of "Foamite," a patented powder which mixes with water to produce a fire-fighting gas said to be superior to the old sulphuric acid, soda and water...
...must be uniform. At this stage, when there is a wide divergence of opinion on many of the details of unemployment insurance, it is necessary for the states to experiment and to discover the system best suited to their peculiar needs. It is folly for the federal government to adopt uniform legislation which shall apply to the widely divergent conditions of the various sections of the United States. While the magnitude of the reserve funds of such a program demand that the national government control their investment and liquidation, laws are necessary to carry into practical effect the general principles...
...saviors of the laboring classes who have come to liberate them from this oppression by suggesting that they join our army of Socialists, Anarchists, Communists, to whom we always extend our help under the guise of the fraternal principles of the universal solidarity of our social masonry. . . . We will adopt for ourselves the liberal side of all parties and all movements and provide orators who will talk so much that they will tire the people with their speeches until they turn from orators in disgust...