Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fundamental purposes were two. One was to establish NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS, to give most promising youths from every part of the country an opportunity for study at an endowed university...
...second basic purpose was to establish UNIVERSITY PROFESSORSHIPS, to reinforce teaching and research by affording broader opportunities to teachers and scholars of unusual scope and ability who are working on the frontier of knowledge. These are the so-called "roving professorships," without Departmental connection...
...onetime merchandising counsel, Dave Smart joined with William Hobart Weintraub (now Esquire's co-publisher) to provide the clothing industry with a trade journal, Apparel Arts, first issued in 1931. This slick imitation of FORTUNE'S format had so ready a success that Dave Smart dared to establish Esquire ("The Magazine for Men") in the depths of 1933 depression. Its hefty size, he-man articles, sexy cartoons and drawings of flashy men's fashions immediately found it a public favor never achieved by less flamboyant aspirants such as Vanity Fair. Despite its 50? price, Esquire boomed...
...since 1909 has been preaching the gospel of co-operative retail merchandising, financing co-ops through the uncooperative profits from Filene's Department Store. Consumer Distribution Corp. is the first enterprise of a new $1,000,000, Filene-financed corporation formed a year and a half ago to establish a nation-wide league of U. S. cooperatives. It will run Greenbelt's general store, food and meat market, drugstore, cinemansion, barber shop, garage and milk route. Prices will not be much lower than elsewhere but, after the Government gets a small percentage of the gross receipts, profits will...
...failed to understand the true intentions of Japan. China has indulged in provocations which precipitated the present incident. Japan's soldiers now are displaying devotion to their country by overcoming all difficulties. These operations are intended only to persuade China to reconsider her course and thereby re-establish the peace of East Asia. It is to be hoped that all people of Japan, in view of the situation, will unite in unswerving devotion in order to obtain this object...