Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loudest Republican group demanding that the G.O.P. adopt a forward-looking world-minded attitude toward foreign policy is the Republican Postwar Policy Association, headed by Deneen A. Watson of Chicago. Curly-haired, self-assured Deneen Watson, 39, a brash newcomer to national politics, is a successful tax attorney whose dabbling in Illinois politics included the managing of Governor Dwight H. Green's downstate campaign...
...Family. In South Bend, Ind., widower Dick Hoslinger paved his way toward the armed forces by having his mother adopt his daughter, who became her dependent and his sister...
...some observers to believe he was toying with the idea of restoring the monarchy under Falange auspices and control, as a sop to advisers who feel that such a move would strengthen Spain's bargaining position with the Allies. Said he: "The regime firmly installed by us may adopt [a monarchy], without prejudice to our revolution or realization of our historic destiny...
...Briton: "We are not speaking of the America of President Roosevelt or the America of Mr. Henry Wallace.. . . We are dealing with the America of big business, the America of Wall Street, of those who believe that they can use the huge reserves of the United States to adopt an investment policy all over the world and to enable their shipping facilities to respond to that policy...
...burgeoning with U. S. troops. By their act they gave Ultima Thule its first native Roman Catholic Bishop in 393 years. Last one was Jon Arason. He and his two sons lost their heads in 1550 opposing Denmark's King Christian III and his edict that the island adopt the motherland's Lutheran faith...