Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court likewise held invalid a law of Washington which was used in quarantining the state against alfalfa shipments (which it was feared might bring in the alfalfa weevil), because the Court held that the state law conflicted with an Act of Congress placing the power to establish such quarantines with the Secretary of Agriculture...
...within constitutional limits will solve the problem permanently. I think we must go back to the 18th Amendment itself and substitute for it a simple grant of power to the Congress. That done, I should hope that the Congress and the States (through the authority of the Congress) could establish in this country, in accordance with local sentiment and desires, some such system as prevails in the Province of Quebec...
...Research. The action at Johns Hopkins was also expressive of a renewed emphasis that came during the year upon the university as an institution for research as well as teaching. Many college presidents had joined with many financiers and U. S. Secretary of Commerce Hoover to establish a National Research Endowment Fund of 20 millions (TIME, March 15, SCIENCE). Historians were seeking a million to underwrite their work. Dean Pound of the Harvard Law School had spoken out on the subject of research in law, and been materially aided by the General Education Board (TIME...
That this is to be the case at Harvard one may be certain, if one believes that the administration. In admitting this new branch of mental discipline so establish and maintain high standards that this particular curriculum has the respect of the student body. And one may certainly expect such high standards to prevail. Nor is the study of naval science so near the correspondence variety of pseudo learning as one can imagine...
Only by indirection does Henry Ford reveal the extent of his business and of his profits, whereas practically every other business organization in the U. S. furnishes its financial statements willingly. The reason lies in the fact that such other concerns wish to establish the value of their stocks and bonds. Indeed those listed on the New York Stock Exchange must do so. On the other hand Ford neither lists his stocks nor seeks public financial support...