Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoever is aware of the failure of the humanitarian proposals to establish international laws regulating warfare tactics must realize the futility of such efforts. When Europe entered the World War, the nationals had agreed to use no poison gas; yet not many months passed before very belligerent country was killing thousands with poisonous fumes. After the War, led by the League of Nations, the world banned dum dum bullets; yet two years ago the Italians used them to blast holes through the Ethiopians...
...more his own funeral will cost. But it makes him uneasy that many of his constituents in The Bronx will not be able to do so. So last week at Albany he introduced a bill which, if passed, would enable New York cities to establish municipal funeral parlors such as several big European cities maintain for their indigent citizens. Decent funerals would be provided at cost price: $60. The parlor which New York City would require to embalm & bury or cremate & pack its poorer citizenry would cost...
...until 1907, 14 years after General Doubleday's death, that a research committee definitely established Cooperstown as the birthplace of baseball. Civic-proud Cooperstownians, whose pastoral background had already been immortalized as the home town and nameplace† of James Fenimore Cooper, bought the original baseball field, spent $25,000 to transform it into a modern ball park and public playground, named it Doubleday field. Three years ago, in anticipation of the 100th birthday of the game, baseball bigwigs and benefactors joined hands to make Cooperstown a bigger, better shrine. To preserve its treasures, baseball sentimentalists decided to build...
Adviser William Jett Lauck, has been something less than successful. Unable for eight months to agree on recommendations, it finally issued a series of reports, most of which failed to make headlines though they did establish pretty thoroughly the basic troubles besetting hard coal. Among them...
Building Service organizer Robert H. Everitt revealed that he had challenged to a debate mysterious officials who opened a drive to establish a company union last Saturday. All 2700 workers employed by the College have been invited to the duel, scheduled for Friday night in Cypress Hall...