Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another group of U. S. businessmen has been applying lighter-than-air pressure in Washington, to get the U. S. to re-establish itself in the rigid airship field. They could derive some encouragement last week from the annual report of Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. Admiral Cook made, without change, the recommendations made last spring by his predecessor, Rear Admiral Ernest J. King: for the U. S. to begin immediately the construction of a metal-hulled airship of 1,500,000 cu. ft. capacity, a larger airship...
...Versing their thoughts on the surrounding counties who had let them down so ignominiously, it was decided there was absolutely no respect to be commanded from them nor the slightest degree of dignity lent and so therefore the only sensible thing to do was secede from the Union." To establish the bona fides of the new nation, a list of its public officials was appended: President, Alf M. Landon; Vice President, Frank Knox; Secretary of State, Alfred E. Smith; Secretary of the Treasury, du Pont and du Pont; Attorney General, John W. Davis; Secretary of the Interior, Jim Reed; Postmaster...
...striking employes of Seattle's Newspaper Guild, wired: "I thought [when I was a great admirer of Mr. Roosevelt] that Mr. Roosevelt resembled Jackson. Perhaps I was more nearly right then than later. Perhaps Roosevelt, like Jackson, has given essential democracy a new lease of life and will establish it in power for a generation...
...Government has chosen to permit the threat of outbreak and violence to remain poised over the heads of Palestine Jewry. With more than 20,000 British troops at its disposal in Palestine, it has treated with the leaders of the revolt, failed to disarm the Arab gangs, failed to establish a water-tight system of frontier-control...
...placed on a purely business basis. The applicant determines the market for his services within a fairly narrow scope and sells to that market by sustained and systematic effort until he gets his job. This channel of approach should form the back log of any Senior's campaign to establish himself in the business world...