Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty, George Washington and 54 other aristocrats planned a government for the U. S. consisting of three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. It did not occur to them to create a fourth branch-inquisitorial. In the course of nearly 150 years politicians have learned a lot, and one thing they have learned is that there is nothing more effective politically than a good hot investigation...
...Paul A. von Lilienfeld Toal, once an employe of the Silver Shirts, now an employe of the North German Lloyd line at Philadelphia, admitted writing and disseminating the following letter: "Reputable investigators seeking to establish correctly the Roosevelt genealogy are forced to the conclusion that the President's forbears were Dutch Jews by the original name of Rosenfeld, inasmuch as they can find no trace of the Roosevelts in the vital statistics of Holland. This is not meant to disparage the President or his forbears. It is mentioned to possibly explain the present Mr. Roosevelt's extraordinary leaning...
...early but unsuccessful campaigns against alleged monopolistic practices in the gasoline and newsprint trades. During the War he helped the Government fix prices. After a short interlude directing publicity against the big meat packers in behalf of the Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association, he returned to Washington to establish the Department of Agriculture's Cost of Marketing division, which made extensive studies on the distribution of milk and potatoes. In 1920 he headed the Florida Hoover-for-President Club, ruefully admits that in 1932 he voted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Establish a Communications Commission to regulate telephone, telegraph and cable companies as the I. C. C. now regulates railroads; already passed by the Senate...
...take care of their training. If the Lowenstein Fellowship proves worthwhile similar fellowships must be instituted to encourage men of ability to enter the civil service. In line with this movement eventually must come the creation of a graduate school of Public Service. Harvard would do well to establish such a worthy precedent...