Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prompt [not necessarily soft] answer turneth away wrath" is a Grew maxim which he would like to see the lumbering State Department adopt. Last week Secretary Hull was out of Washington when the Japanese Foreign Office at length made answer to Ambassador Crew's note protesting Japan's petroleum laws. Acting Secretary of State Philips said the Japanese answer was "vague . . . incomplete . . . unsatisfactory." He hoped to get off fresh instructions to the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo soon. Meanwhile capable Joe Grew pushed on with the job which calls to a diplomat when he is not sure...
...recognized Soviet Russia. Now that Russia has joined the League, should Jugoslavia do likewise, despite the great numbers of White Russians settled in the country and King Alexander's sentimental memories of his youth as a page at the court of Nicholas II? 4) Can the three countries adopt a united front against the growing power of Benito Mussolini in the Balkans? Should tongue-in-cheek approval be given to Adolf Hitler...
Last week Democratic delegates from all over New York State swarmed into Buffalo to renominate Governor Herbert H. Lehman and Senator Royal S. Copeland, pick the rest of their slate, adopt an out-and-out New Deal platform. Up from his great red mansion in Albany went the Governor to receive his party reward for faithful service. Up from his new Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan went Alfred E. Smith to nominate his old friend. Up from his proud new offices in Washington went Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley...
...life. Penelope is his child by an earlier marriage. When first reminded of her, he is having some difficulty meeting the hotel bills incurred in an excursion through the Orient with Toni (Carole Lombard). He is confident that he can sell his unpleasant brother-in-law the right to adopt the child for enough money to perpetuate the irresponsibilities that he enjoys with Toni. It is partly Toni's resentment of this proposed bargain and partly Penelope's charm that make him decide, on meeting his daughter, to keep her himself. He even decides to lead a new life...
...there connected with capital to build gasoline engines. He followed them with rock drills, presses giving unheard-of high powers, improved wood distilling and now an underframe for railway cars that is revolutionary. I still remain the dub who thought people desired cheap transportation only to see them adopt "traveling houses" finished and upholstered better than their homes and furniture...