Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government gave reign to the mob, tools in the hands of their leaders, to establish a Dictatorship of the Streets as well as over the Government itself," writes Alcala Zamora, describing events a few months before the Civil War began as he saw them as President of the Republic. "Anxiety increased. There was panic on the stock exchange. ... I lost all hope when I saw that four Governmental instructions had been framed with extraordinary partiality toward those who were culpable . . . [officials who] had supinely allowed the burning of churches, private houses, offices and workshops before the eyes of a passive...
...priests, he ostentatiously and offensively adopted an ascetic manner of life, he openly abandoned every policy that he had heretofore supported; he affirmed immediately that there was a higher order than that which our King, and he as the King's servant, had for so many years striven to establish; and that--God knows why--the two orders were incompatible...
...Service. American Airlines has applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish flights from Detroit to Cincinnati and from Detroit to Indianapolis. Pennsylvania-Central has asked permission to inaugurate service between Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Transcontinental & Western Air wants to buy Braniff to get a north-south service to cross its transcontinental route, and Eastern Air covets Braniff's line between Houston and Brownsville, Tex., in order to tie up with Pan American's route in Mexico. Last week the chances of fulfilling most of these ambitions without overhauling the Air Mail Act of 1934 were reduced to zero...
...preface, Maurice Buxton Forman thought their evidence should at last lay the legend of Fanny Brawne's heartlessness, establish her as the worthy sweetheart of a great poet. Lay readers could not see that, short of reading between the lines with a very sympathetic eye, the letters changed matters much one way or the other...
...patrol part of the Mediterranean though it was equally clear that Dictator Mussolini would never allow Russian ships to ply Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea"). This was all an elaborate diplomatic finesse, staged by Britain, who knew that Russia never wanted to participate in the blockade, wanted only to establish her right...