Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tension and the strain has had its effect. I do not regret those hours, nor complain of them. . . . I was offered an opportunity to turn to writing as a profession. That made me realize my duty to my family and that for their sake I must try to better establish my financial position. . . . The welfare and the glory of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will always be uppermost in my mind. . . . "Leon G. Turrou...
Still refusing to admit that Charlie Chaplin and she are man & wife, Paulette Goddard announced she was leaving for Reno "to establish a ski club...
Last June Congress abrogated all 31 ocean mail contracts by which the U. S. Government had been subsidizing U. S. shipping at an annual cost of $20,000,000. Under the new Merchant Marine Act the Maritime Commission was empowered to provide "differential" subsidies for U. S. shipping to establish "competitive equality" in foreign trade. By last week eight U. S. shipping companies, having agreed to build 50 new ships in the next six years, had subsidy agreements with the Maritime Commission totalling about...
...Committee's inquiry," it continued, "promises to re-establish the reality of Harvard's liberalism, then the Corporation's failure to act threatens to convert it once more into a myth. Striking at the Corporation, it concluded: "Is the last word to the that which was spoken by Emerson in 1861--'Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot...
...away. The great Ohio Basin flood had cut them off from their nearest municipal neighbors and the world. As the flood waters rose, a Harrisburg ham (amateur short-wave operator), Robert Tompkins Anderson, volunteered to set up an observation post as near as he could get to Shawneetown and establish two-way radio communication with relief agencies that were trying to bring help...