Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companies . . . may immediately adopt the provisions of this plan, but shall be required to do so within three years unless the time is extended by the Federal supervisory body. Similar companies formed after the plan becomes effective may come in at once but shall be required to come in before the expiration of three years from the date of their organization unless the time is extended by the Federal supervisory body...
...passed a "Drop-a-Crop" plan. In Georgia Governor Richard B. Russell Jr. had announced that a majority of his farmers favored it. Governor Harvey Parnell of Arkansas had sent a delegation to Austin to urge it. With the plan already doomed to defeat through Texas' failure to adopt it. Governor Long said he would declare the Louisiana bill "null and void and inoperative." Oklahoma cotton growers agreed to follow Texas. Alabama and Mississippi were still lukewarm. North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner announced that no session of his General Assembly would be called "to completely abandon...
While the story Mr. Flynn tells is true he offers no alluring remedies. He does, however, make a few improving suggestions. Among these: that corporations should adopt uniform accounting methods (a suggestion made last week by Gerard Swope-see p. 16); that lists of stockholders should be made public; that directors should be drafted from genuine investors in the company, not tycoons who may have other interests at heart or who pay no attention to the position. He would have no holding companies, would have no company own stock in another except in rare cases. As for general Cumshavian tendencies...
...Hartford for $100,000. Miss King said that she had been asked to woo George Huntington II, a Harvard sophomore, away from an unnamed Manhattan siren with whom he had become infatuated. In return, Miss King said that Mrs. Hartford had promised to make a settlement on her or adopt her. Miss King said she had fulfilled her part of the bargain. Mrs. Hartford had not. Mrs. Hartford made no public comment...
...proposed new canon on marriage and divorce is a sign of the times. If the General Convention were to adopt a canon such as this, which rejects the plain teaching of our Lord Himself* the Protestant Episcopal Church would be confronted with the gravest crisis in history...