Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nationally famed products had been sold only in Rexall and Liggett stores, and conversely United Drug's manufactures could not be distributed by Sterling-they were for sale exclusively by Rexall stores. Therefore the two spouses could beget no common offspring. Yet they at once proceeded to adopt children. The adoptions were made in the joint name of Drug Inc.. but were really of two kinds: 1) The groom's adoptions consisting of several drug store chains: B. & R. Drug Stores (1928), May Drug Stores (1929), Wolff Wilson Drug Co. (1929), Owl Drug...
...substitute for the Administration's oil control plan, which a rebellious Congress had rejected, the committee voted to adopt the Connally "hot oil" amendment empowering the President to prohibit interstate transportation of oil or oil products produced in violation of any state...
...said Governments, being further convinced that immediate action is of great importance, themselves agree, and strongly urge all other Governments participating in the [World Economic] Conference to agree that they will not, before the 12th of June nor during the proceedings of the conference, adopt any new initiatives which might increase the many varieties of difficulties now arresting international commerce, subject to the proviso that they retain the right to withdraw from this agreement at any time after July 31, 1933, on giving one month's previous notice to the conference...
...ayes for inflation of the coinage of silver, Senator Thomas had sent his perfected measure to President Roosevelt. It was a four-lined pitchfork with which to heave prices into the hayloft. A covering letter accompanied the bill. In this letter Thomas suggested that the President should adopt the program and take the power for the clubbing effect it might have in the June economic conference. When the heirs of Bryan disclosed their gain of 15 votes in three months, John Garner hastened down the avenue to tell the Squire that the inflationists soon would have the stick in their...
...payroll and a bigger payroll in order to provide more public purchasing power. Chief opposition therefore centres among those who believe a strict 30-hour week without variations would be inconvenient in their business, who oppose minimum-wage fixing by the Government. Thus has U. S. business come to adopt views which would have shocked its fathers, which are still shocking other parts of the world: police in Barcelona were still busy last week trying to suppress a "subversive movement,'' fostered by anarchists and syndicalists, to establish a six-hour day in that city...