Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stability of our financial situation has at present become indispensable to order in France and to order in Europe. If Parliament had not authorized exceptional powers to adopt these decrees it would have meant either bankruptcy or inflation and troubles which would be bound to follow. Inflation only postpones trouble and leads also to bankruptcy, which in turn generates social disorders and political convulsions of all sorts...
...what if some students do adopt that outlook? It wouldn't be anything new. Generally there have been a few who have made some campus their social headquarters--and probably there will be more of them in the future...
...York. Samuel Seabury and many another denounce its Chancellor. Last week the State Department knew that it was going to have more trouble with Dr. Luther. Representative Samuel Dickstein, a small, slick Tammany Democrat from Manhattan's Bowery district, got the House of Representatives to adopt (168-to-31) his resolution to create a special committee to investigate everywhere throughout the land "the extent, character and object of Nazi propaganda in the U. S. and the diffusion within the U. S. of subversive propaganda. . . ." Last winter Congressman Dickstein, who chairmans the House Immigration Committee, went through an unofficial dress...
Said Vice President Garner from pious Texas: "Is there objection to the present consideration of the joint resolution?" Placid silence followed. The clerk read the resolution. More placid silence marked the automatic passage of S. J. Res. 21. Not unusual is it for the Senate to adopt a resolution permitting erection of a monument to a Civil War cavalry colonel who was also a great Republican orator. But altogether unusual was the Senate's action when the soldier-orator had an even greater fame as an antiChristian, a man who, were he still alive, would have picked...
Last week when news of this incident reached Moscow no less a person than Josef Stalin himself sent a letter to Widow Weissel. He shared her sorrow: he knew that she had no money; he would be proud to adopt her son and rear him as his own. Widow Weissel politely declined. Said she of her son: ''I promised his father that I would always bring him up as a Socialist, never a Communist...