Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, B. E. F. Commander Walter W. Waters urged his followers at Johnstown to go home, after Governor Ritchie had forbidden him to establish a colony in nearby Maryland. They rebelliously talked of "sitting tight" indefinitely...
...wooded acres in Maryland from a Mrs. Maude Edgell, proprietor of a nursing home, who felt "very bitter" about the Battle of Washington. Major L. J. H. Herwig, U. S. A., retired, of Washington, offered them his 400-acre Virginia farm. On these plots Commander Waters proposed to establish "Khaki Shirts" colonies, warned: "If they try to burn us out again, damn 'em we'll kill 'em." Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, retired, flirted with the idea of consolidating the "Khaki Shirts...
...Constitution would be amended to permit the Federal Government to establish unemployment and health insurance and old age pensions; to take over and socialize railroads, banks, public utilities, mines, forests, oil fields, water power and "other business and industries...
System v. System, The I. C. C.'s underlying idea was to establish rail competition not between individual lines but between systems. Thus out of New York N. Y. C. and Lackawanna, in the same system, would compete against Erie and Lehigh Valley in another system. Four-way system competition would be preserved at such important centres as Buffalo, Toledo, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Only the B. & O. would fail to get into Norfolk. No important city which now has competition between two railroads would get less under the merger plan...
Last year Irma Duncan established the "first American Isadora Duncan School of the Dance," for adults and children. She has ten girls who help her in Manhattan, teaching also in schools and camps. Eventually ambitious Irma Duncan hopes to establish a Teachers' College of the Dance...