Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poison gas. Battleship fleets were to be cut one-third, cruiser, destroyer and aircraft carrier tonnage onefourth. No nation was to have more than 35,000 tons of submarine. The President raised his voice emphatically to declare: "The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament which now lies upon the toilers of the world." An hour and 15 minutes later in Geneva. U. S. Ambassador Gibson was reading the Hoover plan to the assembled delegates at the Disarmament Conference. The President had made...
...brim, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Beau-Rivage. Around an oblong table the delegates of 14 nations* faced each other with a great calm. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Premier Edouard Herriot, Chancellor Franz von Papen and the rest knew that their action must be to postpone action, adopt a temporary European moratorium and lay plans for drawing the U. S. into general cancellation of Reparations & Debts-after the U. S. elections next November...
...will lend Clark Gable to Paramount in exchange for Fredric March. Warner Brothers may return Ruth Chatterton for one picture to Paramount, whence they lured her last year. Universal will lend Lew Ayres to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for one picture opposite Norma Shearer. Next year Paramount is likely to adopt the policy instituted in Grand Hotel by MGM Production Manager Irving Thalberg, of casting several stars in one picture. Forced to make as many pictures as ever, to keep theatres operating, producers had by last week announced the number of cinemas they will make next year...
...Byrnes charged that the President had agreed to go along with the Economy Committee on the pay cut plan but at the last minute his "pride of opinion" caused him to revert to his furlough scheme and to succeed in inducing the Senate to reverse itself and adopt his less economical proposal. 'The bill has been wrecked," cried Senator Byrnes, "and it has been wrecked by the President...
...Minority Leader Robinson, Acting Chairman Crisp of the House Ways & Means Committee* and House Minority Leader Snell. Excerpt: "On behalf of vast numbers of our fellow citizens, we appeal through you to the Senate and the House to lay aside every form of partisanship and quickly to unite to adopt a balanced Federal budget as well as to enact a plan of taxation . economically sound, fair . . . and without discrimination. ... It is our judgment that conditions are so grave that this action should be taken at the earliest possible moment...