Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 22 issue, should add so much fuel to that utterly erroneous idea that the remark "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" had to do with the American difficulties with the Barbary Pirates about 1803. From any good U. S. history, one can establish that this utterance is ascribed to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when he was Minister to France about 1796, and referred to the levy being made upon American shipping and seamen by the French Republic, contrary to all treaties...
...bill lacks the labor provisions which caused Supreme Court invalidation of the original Guffey Coal Act, creates a National Bituminous Coal Commission to fix minimum prices, enforce a code of fair practices. ¶ Passed the wheat crop insurance bill which provides an appropriation of $100,000,000 to establish the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. through which wheat farmers, paying premiums in grain or cash, can insure their crops against natural hazards. If this pioneer legislation, which is concerned with the 1938 crop only, proves efficacious, the New Deal hopes to extend it to other staples, make general crop insurance...
...fortunes of Apollos Smith and his son came to a curious end as Son Phelps' will was probated in the courtroom at Malone. With the exception of a $100,000 trust fund for several servants and relatives, Phelps Smith's $10,000,000 estate will go to establish a "corporation ... to be known as Paul Smith's College of Arts & Sciences . . . to be located upon the shores of St. Regis Lake if practicable . . . for the higher education of boys and girls." To keep out undesirable neighbors, Phelps Smith also provided for the formation of a "Paul Smith...
Regular monthly meetings of the Council are to be a fixture, it was learned, in an attempt to establish an undergraduate athletic body that is active and in touch with trends of student opinion...
...across the Pacific, Reporters Herbert Ekins and Leo Kieran circled the globe on commercial aires. Soon after, Pan American's President Juan Terry Trippe and a party of friends also flew around the world on commercial lines. Last week, Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam took off from Oakland "to establish the feasibility of circling the globe by commercial air travel" and "to determine just how human beings react under strain and fatigue." The plane was the $80,000 Lockheed Electra bought and outfitted for her by publicity wise Purdue University as a "flying laboratory." With her as navigators she took...