Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headquarters, the Mayor-elect regaled reporters and press agents: he would establish an America First Association in every state in the Union; he would "show King George V where to get off"; he would be "Big Bill the Builder"; he would run the gangsters out of Chicago and let them go to St. Louis, Detroit, New York; he would "make the streets safe so that women and children can go to the movies at night"; he would not let the police go "sniffing around for home brew"; he might go after the presidency...
...Albania; and on the fourth side lies the Adriatic, with Italy just across its silvery waves. Italian states-craft has always the object of seizing the Adriatic shore of Jugoslavia along which Italians already own 96% of all producer wealth: factories, steamship lines, etc. Therefore, if Il Duce could establish close rapprochement with all the countries bounding Jugoslavia, he would have laid the noose for hog-tying that realm. This, in a vulgar word, was what Il Duce and Count Bethlen did last week...
...military leader, Chiang Kaishek, on a brotherly basis. With him I have no quarrel, for I hear that in his heart he too wants to get rid of the Bolsheviks. Only two Chinese parties would then face each other across the Yangtze, and it should not be hard to establish a great laborious country, peaceful and blessed by the Gods...
Martin Henderson (Fritz Williams), eagle of finance, from his steel cleft high above Wall Street's sidewalk, connives cold-blooded revolution in Mexico. His motive: to irritate the U. S. into intervention, thus establish law, order, prosperity for his Spread Eagle oil fields. By financing a professional revolutionary, Henderson buys a political crisis. But to make the U. S. public see red, something more personal than oil is needed. Luck has it that Henderson's daughter, Lois (Brenda Bond) introduces to her potent father one Charles Parkman, boy in search of a job, also son of a onetime president...
...Butterfly; Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe and Pirates of Penzance; and Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana. In Manhattan, the first three were presented. From a financial point of view, the second two did better than the first. On the whole, the venture into professional entertainment met with fair success, enough to establish the practicability of the enterprise, to encourage fur- ther effort of the same nature...