Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands together, beamed self-satisfaction through his horn-rimmed glasses. Like an eager runner who beats the starting gun, he had not waited for March 4 and the change of administration to start this parade of economists, financiers and industrialists at the Capitol. He had gotten the Senate to adopt his resolution calling for an investigation of the Depression at once. In his forehandedness he had a double purpose: 1) to stall off radical legislation at this session; 2) to give the Roosevelt Administration all available ideas on relief as early as possible...
John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, one-time Mayor of New York-"The greatest sham of the age which has made all mankind its victims has been the plan of inducing foreign governments to adopt the gold standard under the pretense of stabilizing their currencies and then making them large loans at high rates of interest...
Basic also are three recommendations which the Report asks the assembly to adopt: 1) "the Assembly recommends the evacuation of [Japanese] troops" who should withdraw into the only part of Manchuria in which they have treaty rights to be, namely, the narrow South Manchuria Railway Zone running down to Dairen & Port Arthur in Japan's Kwantung Leased Territory; 2) "the Assembly recommends the establishment in Manchuria ... of an organization under the sovereignty ... of China" but with "a wide measure of autonomy ... in harmony with local conditions." This organization should police Manchuria with "an efficient gendarmerie," yet to be created...
...They had known that the Oxford Union, that famed debating society which is the traditional school for British statesmen, has been increasingly attended by studious greasy grinds, apt to be Laborites. But what indeed was the Empire coming to when the Union sank so low last week as to adopt by a vote of 275-to-153 this proposition...
...doubt if much can be accomplished by adopting a policy under which those men would be selected for promotion who are good tutors and lectures as well as good scholars. Men of this type are rare. On the other hand, I should like to see Harvard adopt a policy under which teaching ability became the main criterion of promotion in all cases. Is it not possible to differentiate between these members of the Faculty whose main job is research and those whose main job is lecturing and tutoring? Could not promotion in the first group be made to depend...