Word: establish
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...Haiti, which declared its independence from France in 1803, signed in 1915 with the U. S. a treaty virtually establishing an American protectorate over the country. The main provisions of the treaty were to establish a number of U. S. advisory officers, appointed by the President of Haiti on the recommendation of the President of the U. S.; but their functions have since been coördinated under a High Commissioner. Military occupation was necessary to safeguard U. S. personnel and to enforce order during a period of administrative construction...
...Dominican Republic was founded in 1844 and misgoverned itself with short exceptions until 1916 when the U. S. found it necessary to establish a military government. For almost eight years San Domingans have behaved themselves, and in the hope that this has now become a habit the U. S. is about to terminate occupation of the country...
...sending photographs by telephone, last week reported success in transmitting photographs by wireless. A picture sent from his wireless station at Malmaison, ten miles outside of Paris, was published in Le Matin. Convinced of the practicability of transmitting radio pictures between New York and Paris, he intends to establish receiving posts in New York in September...
They plan to establish a central ticket agency, an echo of the erstwhile Central Ticket Office once nearly adopted, at Madison Square Garden, where tickets will be sold at the old-fashioned or box office scale. Supervision of this bureau is to be in the hands of William A. Brady and L. Lawrence Weber, prima facie evidence that there will be a strong effort to stump the speculators. Mr. Brady has long been known as a foe of this gentry; Mr. Weber recently proposed a feasible scheme whereby they could be laid...
...note, which was approved by Belgian, British, French and Italian Premiers, was a virtual ultimatum, stating bluntly that the Allies did not believe that Germany had carried out the disarmament clauses of the Versailles Treaty and demanding a general inspection "for three or four months" to establish the true state of Germany's "preparedness." Control by the League of Nations was refused. Upon the result of the inquiry the Allies would base further action...