Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built the first U. S. open-hearth furnace, manufactured the first U. S. steel of commercial value, directed Cooper Union for 40 years as secretary of its board, helped smash Tammany's Boss Tweed and, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in 1876 led the fight to establish Samuel J. Tilden's claim to the Presidency. Abram Hewitt's career reached its climax in 1886 when, in a rousing personal victory, he beat Candidates Henry George and Theodore Roosevelt to become a great reform Mayor of New York City...
...assertion that Ann had been born two months prematurely, weighing only 3 1/2 lb., in the feverish Paris of August 1914, that only exceptional motherly care had kept her alive. How could she be accused of seeking her daughter's income after she had spent large sums to establish Ann's legitimacy in court when Father Hewitt's brothers and sisters contested his will? Furthermore, her daughter's chief charge was absurd since neither of them could ever touch the trust fund principal, which was reserved eventually for Cooper Union...
...kind but also a pattern for Departments of Education in other states throughout the country. But this colorless and academic accomplishment held no allure for James M. Curley, who, it is pleasant to note, is a product of the Massachusetts school system before Dr. Smith had an opportunity to establish adequate education. Far outweighing any qualifications he may have had for the post of Commissioner of Education was the man's unpardonable sin--he was a Republican...
...fitting that a university about to establish a school in political science should open its gates to a victim of the lack of it. Massachusetts, dying as it is of hypocrisy, may exchange its most valuable servants for Curley's marionettes, but Harvard has shown that it can recognize real education even where the Commonwealth cannot...
...Kemp fought a defensive as well as a losing battle. He did not even attend the stockholders' meeting. His side contented itself with refusing to send in proxies in the hope that the meeting would fail to establish a quorum. After much last-minute proxy hunting, the Ivey-men established their quorum and the managerial casualties began. The victors sent the losers a resolution which, in effect, asked them please not to take the new elections to court, as the company had already done enough quarreling. "They must be afraid," commented Mr. Kemp, "otherwise they would not have passed...