Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commission of Inquiry. The Commission of Inquiry constituted by the Council of Ambassadors (TiME, Sept. 17) to establish the exact responsibility for the Janina murders, continued its deliberations. An Albanian shepherd testified that he had been asked by the Albanian Governor of Argyrokastro " to assassinate a mission." His evidence created a profound sensation and the matter is under investigation...
...Brisbane, like most laymen, overlooks the fact that the burden was upon the prosecution to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the killing was deliberate, intentional, wilful and unjustifiable. Anyone acquainted with the progress of the case must have realized that the evidence brought forward by the Attorney General's office was insufficient to convict...
...Condé Nast, editor and owner of Vogue, has abandoned his attempt to establish Vogue in London and has sold the English edition of Vogue to the publishing house of Hutchinson and Company. ... In this connection it is interesting to note that all attempts to establish English editions of American magazines have not failed. The English edition of Good Housekeeping, owned and published by William Randolph Hearst, has become in two short years the leading woman's magazine in England, excepting only Nash's Magazine, which also belongs to Mr. Hearst...
...Wall Street is correct in the statement that Henry Ford is going into the oil business, the confusion and consternation caused thereby will be enormous. Mr. Ford, it seems, intends to establish gas stations which will sell gasoline exclusively to Ford owners at sixteen cents a gallon. The fearful consequences to the automobile, oil and autobody industries are easily apparent. The demands for Fords will be increased to such an extent that the Ford plant will probably be distended to the bursting point in order to satisfy...
...real need for institution which will offer opportunities higher than those of more trade schools to the relatively few students who want them and can profit by them. The need has been recognized before and Harvard is apparently anxious to be among such institution. The problem is to establish a system, one of whose prerequisites is limitation of numbers...