Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warden Lawes hailed the departure as bringing into the prison administration field a new class of men who, possessing intelligence as well as a humanitarian background, will adopt the work as a career to replace the haphazard political appointees serving as wardens in almost all prisons outside of New York State...
...with power to impose an agreed limit on the monthly exports of each wheat exporting nation. Such rigid control has become increasingly popular in Europe, where "steel cartels" and such are common. Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne of New York has persuaded the world's sugar growers to adopt such a plan, though similar plans failed in the rubber, coffee, tin and several other industries. The U. S. farmer through his representatives in Congress would probably reject working under quota rule and in London last week Mr. McKelvie, knowing this, said...
Chief Delegate McKelvie even managed to say that the conference "accepted in principle the American suggestion that there should be a reduction in acreage." Acceptance-in-principle is a useful phrase. The Conference did adopt a sop resolution in which it stated the obvious fact that reduction in acreage would ease the world wheat situation, but no chief delegate, except Sam McKelvie, even promised to exhort farmers to "voluntarily reduce...
...accordance with Clause II the parties undertake not to adopt in their relations with each other any discrimination whatsoever and regard the adoption in any of their countries of a special attitude militating against the interest of one or any of the countries subscribing to this protocol as incompatible with its principles...
...speech he proposed a Pact of Economic Non-Aggression between Russia and other States "for the peaceful co-existence of the Soviet and Capitalist systems." Russia, he said, would agree with Capitalist countries on a program of no dumping by anyone. "Let the States represented here," he shrewdly concluded, "adopt a general convention providing for compulsory sale of commodities in home markets at the same low prices which prevail in foreign markets...