Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idle for us to speculate upon actions which may be taken by the Federal Government. ... It is true the Federal Government may take action to eradicate some of the basic causes of our present troubles . . . may come forward with a definite construction program on a truly large scale . . . may adopt a well thought out, concrete policy which will start the wheels of industry moving. . . . But the State of New York cannot wait for that. It must itself make available a large sum of public monies to provide work for its residents this winter and, where such work cannot be found...
...Secretary of Labor Doak, no friend of Reds, moved swiftly and vigorously to deport him. U. S. firms selling him tool machinery protested loudly to the White House. Last week it developed that President Hoover, anxious to retain Soviet trade, had interceded with an order to Secretary Doak to adopt a more liberal policy toward Russian businessmen. Thanks to the President, Ivan Matveef, no longer an Amtorg vice president, will remain in the U. S., continue to buy tool machinery...
...Northwestern University last week, promises to enlarge the study of bacteriology. One great problem of the science has to do with viruses. What are they? Are they germs too small to see with the microscope or the ultramicroscope? Are they germ poisons? Are they transitional forms which germs adopt? Whatever they are, they are a vicious nuisance, involved in such diseases as infantile paralysis, smallpox, measles, rabies, rheumatism...
...Mayor Murphy was hailed on speaking trips about the country as the only U. S. municipal executive who had really sponsored a practical, inclusive relief program. Last spring at the Progressive Conference in Washington he got a thunderous ovation from Senators and representatives who wanted the Federal Government to adopt the Detroit system on a big scale (TIME, March...
...received careful instructions in French manners and etiquette preparatory to their Paris reception. Always in the press spotlight was big, breezy, beetle-browed George Baker, Mayor of Portland, Ore. and chairman of the delegation of 25 executives. At a banquet at Dinard, Mayor Baker grandly announced that he would adopt a five-year-old French orphan who played the bass drum in a church band which entertained the visitors. When he found he could not take the boy home with him, Mayor Baker promised to send him $50 per year. Not to be outdone by this Portlandish gesture, Henri Prince...