Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot to re-establish the monarchy in Bavaria was nipped in the bud by the Munich police. The royalists' plans provided for the detachment of Bavaria from the rest of the Reich and the formation of a South German Federation to include Austria. French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot. Upward of 70 people were arrested...
Briefly, the Agricultural Act reorganizes the banking system of the Federal Farm Loan Board to establish 12 rural credit departments in the 12 Federal Land Banks. Each will have a capital of $5,000,000, upon which it can issue tax-free debentures up to ten times that amount on farm properties and stock to 75 per cent of their value...
...comes England with a move towards easier divorce. A bill, likely to become law, provides that a wife need no longer prove cruelty and desertion in addition to adultery by the man, as has been required heretofore-although the man needs only to establish infidelity by the woman...
...American Field Service, by means of contributions, has established 20 fellowships for American students to study in France. M. Clemenceau, upon his return to France from America, contributed all of the money he had received for speaking, some $45,000, to this Service to establish further fellowships of this nature and to establish one fellowship for a French student studying in America. This is an example of the exceptional interest the French people are taking in these exchanges. Professors are also exchanged between Harvard, Columbia, and other American universities and the French universities...
Last night the business department of the CRIMSON sent out cards to over 1000 members of the University who may intend to travel in the west or abroad this summer. The CRIMSON has decided to establish a travel bureau to get in touch with steamship lines, foreign hotels, and western ranches, and to help students make arrangements with them...