Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treaty had become "inapplicable or ineffective." He went back to the Washington Conference of 1921-22 to recall that Belgium, Britain, France. Italy. Japan, The Netherlands, Portugal and the U. S. then and there had joined with China in this pact to respect Chinese sovereignty and integrity and to establish the "Open Door" to China trade as a diplomatic fact. Wrote the Secretary to the Senator: "At the time this treaty was signed it was known that China was engaged in an attempt to develop the free institutions of a self-governing republic . . . that she would require many years...
...would permit an expenditure of close to $1,000,000,000 to complete all vessels now building, modernize all capital ships, equip all carriers with aircraft, replace all overage craft and add enough new tonnage to make the U. S. fleet second to none. Its prime purpose was to establish in U. S. law a naval building policy which President Hoover, for reasons of economy, has been reluctant to pursue. Senator Hale made much of the argument that his bill, if passed, would improve U. S. bargaining power at the World Disarmament Conference now sitting at Geneva. This view impressed...
Believing that the hundred or more students at Harvard from Philadelphia would be glad to establish at least a speaking acquaintance with one another, the Harvard Club of that city is giving an informal dinner to Philadelphians at 6 o'clock on Wednesday, March 9, at Dunster House. Over 55 men attended a similar dinner in the House last year, at which President Lowell gave a short talk. The President has accepted the invitation to be the honor guest on Wednesday...
...Geneva, where the things were made. Now it was broken. Could M. Jeanrichard do anything about it? M. Jeanrichard could try. He took the watch apart, spent several weeks trying to put it together again. Finally he sold out his forge and went to Geneva. He returned to establish watchmaking in Le Locle. One of his apprentices was a youth named Pellaton. Long after Blacksmith Jeanrichard was dead, Pellatons made watches, saw them grow smaller & smaller, finer & finer. The present Pellaton, Georges, who moved from Le Locle to Geneva, has seen the advent of wristwatches, electric clocks, self-winding watches...
Professor Robert E. Rogers of M. I. T. has proposed to the Massachusetts State Legislature that it take action to establish and support a short-wave radio station from which educational programs would be broadcast under the direction of the State Board of Education. Professor Rogers asserts that the few educational programs now fostered by commercial stations are at best sporadic or punctuated with advertising. He claims that a state institution such as he suggests would cost little to maintain, and that talent could easily be secured for its programs...