Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ninety per cent of the 1660 Harvard students who voted in the CRIMSON'S prohibition poll yesterday approved the proposal that the two major political parties should adopt a definite prohibition plank in their party platforms at the conventions in Chicago next month. Of that number 626, or about 42 per cent of those in favor of the suggestion, expressed the wish that the party platforms should advocate repeal of the prohibition...
Chicagoans who read society news are now accustomed to reading daily chit-chat which, besides routine news of socialite comings & goings, serves up harmless intimacies. First to adopt the idea was the Daily News when alert Col. William Franklin ("Frank") Knox took charge last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). Soon the Tribune found it necessary to brighten up its social page. Last week, accompanied by fanfare which included a full-page advertisement and a half-page announcement in the society columns, Hearst's evening American appeared with the chattiest column of them all. Excerpts...
...meeting of the Club to adopt a platform will be held next week...
Opening this evening with the registration of delegates at 7.30 o'clock, the mock convention of the Harvard Democratic Club will meet in the New Lecture Hall to hear the keynote address by Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to adopt a platform, and to nominate candidates for president and vice-president...
...this moment the Chilean Government can step in and take over all means of production and distribution without stepping outside the bounds laid down by the present Chilean Constitution. I urge that Chilean people adopt Socialism without Revolution...