Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted the conference report on the $2,100,000,000 Relief bill; sent it to the President for a veto (see below). ¶ Debated a bill to establish a system of home loan banks, before digressing to adopt (53-to-18) an amendment proposed by Idaho's Borah to inflate currency by $1,000,000,000 by issuance of National Bank notes on Federal bonds. ¶ Passed a House bill appropriating $100,000 to send the Bonus Expeditionary Force home (see p. 11). ¶ Adopted the Couzens resolution authorizing a committee of five Senators to investigate...
...thirds of both national chambers adopt this resolution, Step No. 2 will be up to the 48 Governors...
...time has come," the Engineer President said, "to adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament which now lies upon the toilers of the world. This would be the most important world step that could be taken to expedite economic recovery...
Recalling that 100,000 troops are "deemed appropriate for the maintenance of order" among 65,000,000 Germans, the President urged all nations to adopt the existing ratio of troops to population in the Central Powers as the basis for determining the "police component" of all nations...
...Over a dish of fried oysters a friend, John Y. Whitted, pointed to the mustard jar and said: "There is a condiment that is made in Durham, England. It bears the sign of a Durham bull's neck. Why not name your product Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco and adopt the whole bull as a trade-mark?" Tobaccoman Green immediately had a bull painted on sheet iron, mounted in front of his factory. The bull was heavy, clumsy, stolid and faced toward the east. After Founder Green died and Bull Durham tobacco was made by his more aggressive partner William...