Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emergency Powers Act, urges the British proletariat to be prepared to resist "lest British Fascism come like a thief in the night!" Nationally ready for class war, Labor's Cripps is internationally a pacifist. He induced the last Labor Congress to adopt a motion pledging the Party to refuse to support any British Govern-ment which might make war and to stop hostilities if necessary by organizing a general strike (TIME, Oct. 16). In all recent British by-elections Labor candidates have drawn their loudest cheers by restating variations of this anti-war pledge and Sir Stafford loomed last...
...State Chamber of Commerce solemnly resolved that "measures should be taken with the utmost promptness looking toward the restoration of a permanent gold standard in the U. S. . . . It is of the greatest im portance to business recovery that the Administration clearly and unequivocally announce that it will not adopt an automatic commodity dollar or a managed commodity dollar or similar currency experi- ments. . . ."* An amendment to substitute an endorsement of the President's policy was voted down with a roar of Nays. When Earl Harding, representing the inflationist Committee for the Nation, asserted that the resolution would antagonize...
...Turks obliged by Kemal to adopt family names...
...know, many colleges have become prominent through their successes and news-paper popularity of their successful football teams and victories over Harvard and Yale, but what glory to them with their big expenses if Harvard and Yale adopt truly amateur methods and amateur coaching. The Harvard-Yale games will be just as exciting and just as good sport and fun. The atmosphere will be a purely amateur one and what pretends to be amateur sport will be in fact worthy of that name...
...opening day of Chamber session, square-shouldered, homespun Premier Edouard Daladier kept the details of his cracking-down budget plans in the background, demanded that the Chamber adopt the expedited procedure of budget debate known in France as ''extreme urgency." He then appealed for an initial vote of confidence in a speech which was in effect the answer of France to Germany's withdrawal from the Disarmament Conference (TIME...