Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dentistry is a young profession, still suffering from growing pains, and your sympathetic attitude will do much to establish public confidence in its efforts to progress...
...Ever receptive to new plans for improving the lot of mankind, the President and his Son-Secretary James broached two new ones. After consulting with Secretary Morgenthau and a committee on housing, the President told the press of a scheme to establish institutions similar to building & loan associations for that $0% of the population who rent homes. By depositing their savings in such institutions the renters would get better interest than they can get at present from banks, would thus supply funds for the building of low-cost homes to be rented back to them. In Boston, Son James...
...China. Manchukuo was "stolen" or "achieved" by his predecessors, according to the point of view. To say that the Prince is a "Liberal" means chiefly that he is not a frantic Japanese zealot who wants his country to bite off more of China than it can chew. To establish, as a sequel to "Manchukuo," another "kuo" of moderate size is Prince Konoye's idea of being Liberal...
...story would make a perfect Joseph Hergesheimer novel, has always been closely held but last week Birdsboro was granted permission to list 200,000 shares of no-par common on the New York Curb Exchange. Reasons: to provide extra working capital, pay off bank loans, redeem outstanding preferred stock, establish a price for the common stock for the convenience of present owners, mostly family members and widely scattered...
...will was executed, there were 45 States. Scholarships were added for Oklahoma (1907), Arizona and New Mexico (1912). In 1929, Rhodes Scholar Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College and U. S. executor of the Rhodes Trust, knocked on the door of Parliament and had the Trust amended to establish eight districts of six States with twelve scholarships apiece, an arrangement which has since eliminated many an indifferent backwoods candidate. Last week alert Trustee Aydelotte was fittingly rewarded for this and other Rhodes services when Oxford University made him an honorary Doctor of Civil...