Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administration, used the same words and others when the dirigible Shenandoah crashed. Court-martialed and suspended, he resigned, retired to his Virginia estate, from which he emerged at frequent intervals to damn his onetime superiors with charges of inefficiency and incompetence, bellow louder than ever for the creation of a separate Air Department...
...Washington, with its acres of gleaming granite, its vistas of magnificent buildings, was a creation of the Hoover Administration (TIME, May 6, 1929). The only one of the new buildings actually completed before March 1933 was the Department of Commerce Building. Almost ready for occupancy at the change of administration was the nearby Department of Agriculture Building. It was equipped with the sort of mural that Congressional committees had been approving for Federal buildings since the British burned the U. S. Capitol: A great rectangle showing a number of buxom ladies swathed in cheesecloth, standing about a wheatfield (TIME, April...
...Archer not only advocates the creation of an international money to be called "europa," but has had some of it printed and spends it successfully in Le Puy, where shopkeeper constituents have faith in Felix. In some respects a highly skilled and intellectual man of "Brain Trust" calibre, Deputy Archer has to his credit the invention of several models of quick-firing French cannon esteemed by the Army...
...Class B was more difficult because of the dividend accumulation of $17,260,000- a total which even Radio Corp. could not handle on top of the expenditure involved in calling Class A. So Mr. Kennedy suggested the creation of a new preferred stock callable at $100 and paying $3.50 a year. Each Class B holder would receive for one share of his Class B, one and one-fifth shares of the new preferred, plus one share of common. Enticement was added to this offer by providing that at any time within the next five years each share...
...being gratefully celebrated, it is obvious from the vigorous, forward-looking plans of the president that he is thinking of what future such a distinguished past should have in the conjugation of its life. The initial steps beyond the threshold of the fourth century are definitely planned: first, the creation of a number of new professorships to be known as university professorships with "roving commissions" among the departments, but "without portfolios" and free from departmental restrictions and administrative duties, yet free to carry on investigation in any laboratory in the university; and second, the establishment of new Harvard national scholarships...