Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME says, "Chairman Spangler himself had compressed his postwar domestic plank into on typewritten page of anti-New Deal invective and glowing promises." Th fact is that Chairman Spangler did not desire the Council to adopt any resolution on domestic policy. . . . This did not meet with the approval of the Domestic Affairs Ccmmittee, particularly Governor Dewey and myself. . . I enclose the postwar domestic plank which I wrote Sunday night after learning that none had been prepared by Mr. Spangler, and which I submitted to the committee...
Raymond Clapper: "Isolation has won the opening battle in the United States Senate. . . . Yet there must come a time when the debate must be held and when it will be necessary to have the worst said that can be said-because any course that America and other nations adopt must be strong enough to withstand the speeches of isolationist Senators...
...plays a Hollywood guide whose lifelong tragedy, cheating him of a screen career, is his resemblance to Eddie Cantor. This damaged soul lives among others of Hollywood's lumpenproletariat in Gower Gulch, a sort of surrealist Hooverville. Eventually the true Cantor is kidnapped by Gower Gulch Indians who adopt him into the tribe for the benefit of a LIFE photographer (flatteringly misrepresented by Joan Leslie). At the climax of the Monster Benefit the false Cantor impersonates the man he hates most in the world, the true Cantor. Meanwhile the true Cantor suffers as he has suffered for years: Indians...
...members of the Kuomintang's most exalted body, the Central Executive Committee, agreed. They resolved that the long-deferred People's Congress should meet within a year from the end of war, adopt a constitution, set the date when it is to go into effect...
...Watsonites went on their way. But they are determined that the Mackinac session shall not adopt any flannelmouthed, weasel-worded program as the Republican set of foreign-policy principles. If that happens, reasons Watson, a lot of new Republican converts are going to relapse to Franklin Roosevelt...