Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands. Currently, with Federal spending curtailed and Congressional revolt on foot, the President has less control of the House than before. In this state of affairs, Franklin Roosevelt's toothache might have been considerably alleviated last week had he been sure that Speaker Bankhead could: 1) re-establish the onetime prestige of the Speakership and 2) employ it with a strong hand...
...elderly and respected stooge, Mr. Lin Sen, the Chinese President, went aboard a warship which took him 1,000 miles up the Yangtze to Chungking. Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui and Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung announced they were going to Hankow, with the War Ministry slated to establish itself just across the river at Wuchang. Obviously the main purpose of such announcements last week was to impress the world with a notion that whatever cities Japanese troops succeed in taking there will always be other cities containing part of the "Chinese Government." Generalissimo Chiang, although still Premier...
...driving 1,400,000 miles without accident or arrest Allen Bush Hill, 55, of Corpus Christi, Tex., was last week awarded a $150 Elgin watch and the title "World's Safest Truck Driver" by the American Trucking Associations.* During the 30 years it took him to establish the record, he averaged 46,600 miles per year, not counting nine months driving with the A. E. F.'s Fifth Engineers. More than a quarter of his mileage was covered in one G. M. C. truck. Driver Hill advised: "Give all the road you can, take all they...
...recoil region. Connected to an ammeter, the collector translated the strength of the electron beam at a number of points into measured electric current. The pattern having been thus patiently and ingeniously mapped out, it was seen to consist of true diffraction rings. Concluded the researchers: "Our experiments establish the wave nature of moving electrons with the same certainty as the wave nature of X-rays...
...reason for his appointment lies in outside pressure. At the time the public urged that Massachusetts establish a state university for teachers, which Harvard naturally opposed...