Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except for the power to establish post offices and post roads, nothing was said about the possibility of the Government's going into the field of private business. And it certainly never occurred to the Constitution-makers that the manufacture and sale of electric power in the seven States of the Tennessee Valley would be very dear to the heart of the 32nd President...
...refused to describe the stuff. Doctors branded him a quack. People whom he claimed to have cured, doctors argued, either never had cancer or, as occasionally happens, recovered spontaneously. Dr. Koch argued that his critics were hostile because his chemical would curtail their profitable cancer business. He proceeded to establish a reputation among laymen, one of whom was Mr. Anderson, onetime railroader. Wartime civilian recruiter for the Army, onetime propagandizer for the Veterans' Bureau, onetime anti-Prohibition crusader...
...present there is before the Committee for the Investigation of Commuter Problems a proposal to establish a new building with much larger accommodation facilities than Philips Brooks House...
...Central v. Individual Reserves. In the European plan all insurance funds are held in one pool and all benefits paid from it. In Wisconsin each business is allowed to establish its own reserve. If a firm establishes its financial responsibility it may keep charge of its reserve; otherwise the State or an approved fiduciary manages the reserve but it still belongs to each firm. Employers have to put 2% of the amount of their payrolls into their reserve each year until it amounts to $55 per employe, then 1% a year until it reaches $75. Then contributions cease until...
...charged that in 1931 Mr. Mellon had "sold" big blocks of his securities to Pittsburgh's Union Trust Co., on whose board sat Mr. Mellon's late brother Richard and his nephews William and Richard. In effect, Mr. Mellon was accused of selling stock to himself to establish a tax loss. This Mr. Mellon bitterly denied, calling the latest complaint "impertinent, scandalous and improper...