Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latest among AVC proposed aids to the student-veteran is a plan calling for the Veterans Administration to adopt a new decentralized system, similar to the Army's payroll setup which would bring about more prompt payment of subsistence allowances. Chat Patterson. AVC national legislative representative. has recommended that a qualified disbursing officer be appointed to make payments of allowances directly to student-veterans...
...make purchases in the United States. But it is an elementary principle of international trade that a nation must sell goods in order to be able to buy them. If American markets are closed to foreign countries, they will have no recourse but to withdraw into economic isolation, adopt a system of strict controls, and wage a cutthroat fight to control certain export markets. The frictions arising from this condition might well provide the spark for another...
...Switzerland on some cases with which the League of Nations was concerned. Long an advocate of international cooperation and of European federation, Lawyer Auer in 1936 offered a plan to strengthen the League of Nations by adding to it an economic and social council. The League did not adopt this idea, but the United Nations did. An anti-Nazi, Auer lived in disguise in Hungary during the war. At last summer's Paris Peace Conference, at which he represented Hungary, so many Frenchmen came to greet him that other former enemy delegates were surprised to learn that he belonged...
Said Lawyer Lamb: "It is unwise to specify these fabulous and reckless sums. They . . . may stir Congress to adopt restrictive legislation...
...presentation of the conditions which exist in the mines today, Laidler offered a three point program for resolving the main difficulties. The solution lies through the effective application of public pressure to make management negotiate in good faith, to democratize the UMW, and to force the government to adopt a positive approach, such as more effective mediation, in strike situations, said Laidler...