Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...called to advise the Government about unemployment relief. He had drafted a thoroughly Socialist plan?"the Mosley memorandum"?but, at a meeting presided over by Mr. Snowden, the Cabinet had turned this down. As dramatically as possible Sir Oswald proclaimed that this proved that Scot MacDonald would never adopt the true, the right, the Socialist course, the course which the Labor Party (technically Socialist) had a right to demand. Therefore, he had resigned. Whatever the future might hold he and the true Socialists of the party would stand together on giving 25 shillings a week to all workers over...
...players who have already played three years at some college from being members of the West Point team. Following as it does on the Cagle incident, in which the Army star played right into the hands of the Navy, the institution which is advocating that the Army adopt the three year rule, the decision of the Big Ten is convincing in proving that West Point will, soon have to regulate its standards along with its collegiate rivals or be out of the football picture altogether...
Capone's lawyers went before circuit Judge Uly O. Thompson, obtained a writ that released their client because no formal charges had been filed against him. City Manager Frank H. Wharton announced that Miami would adopt Chicago's policy and arrest Capone on sight until he left town. Federal District Judge Halsted L. Ritter who had granted Capone an injunction against warrantless arrest by Florida sheriffs refused to broaden his order to include the Miami police. But Capone was temporarily free to fight the city's padlock petition against his Palm Island home...
...West Point, and Sloane. Drake star, was enrolled at Annapolis when the two academics began discussing eligibility rules. The Navy, of its own free will, advocated a policy of ineligibility for all college players who came to the respective institutions, while Army would go only so far as to adopt the three-year rule, that is, not allowing the men to play on the academy team during their plebe year. The warring factions could not agree and the break came, both sides adopting their respective policies...
...undesirable that non-Harvard players should be refused admittance to the courts or that the University should adopt a "dog-in-the-manger" attitude. But, especially since, tennis is one of the few sports for which a charge is made. Harvard men should certainly have preference to Harvard courts. To carry out this program, an arrangement might be made allowing outsiders to fill in any vacancies a few minutes after the hour. Harvard favors "athletics for all," and tennis should not, through lack of facilities, hamper this policy...