Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopt a 1¢-per-gal. import tax (i. e. tariff) on crude oil and gasoline. Unsuccessfully (190-10-97) did Representatives from the Atlantic seaboard attempt to block this concession to the Southwestern oil producers. Next day the House chaplain opened the session by reciting . . . Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. (Psalm...
...Chicago to make a St. Patrick's Day speech Secretary of War Hurley, talking privately to friends, was overheard by a newsman to say: "I believe the national convention will adopt a more liberal stand on Prohibition. A great many people are going to look for Wet candidates in November. Eventually I think the Prohibition question will be settled on the basis of State's rights." Back in Washington where Dry leaders were shocked and hurt by his words, Secretary Hurley hastened to explain: "When I want to speak in quotation on Prohibition, the words will be mine...
...Emerging from the White House, Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, declared: "There is very strong agitation in favor of a Wet plank of some kind among Republicans. The party will have to adopt some kind of platform to meet the changed situation...
...join. Nevertheless, as sometimes happens, Jewry was petitioned in Warsaw by a Roman Catholic named Antoni-Stefan Raczynski. The Warsaw Rabbinate refused the application, was backed by the Minister of Education who cited a Tsarist ukase of 1905 granting religious liberty save to native Christians who wished to adopt non-Christian faiths. But Pan (Mr.) Raczynski appealed his case to the Supreme Administrative Tribunal at Warsaw, which three weeks ago reversed the previous decisions. Let the Rabbinate admit Pan Raczynski. The Tsarist ukase, said the Tribunal, meant "Greek Orthodox" when it said "Christian." Hence any Roman Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist...
Even though conversion has ceased to be a crime, Judaism takes pains to point out to a would-be convert that it prefers to maintain the racial purity of its faith, that its outlook is difficult for a goy to adopt. One finds religious satisfaction best in one's own group. Unlike Christians, Jews do not seek to save the world. They are satisfied that the souls of righteous men will be taken care of, no matter what their faith.* If, however, a non-Jew is determined to embrace Judaism, and if no ulterior motive (such as intermarriage...