Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Stalin: "I assume that Finland, not less than Rumania and Hungary, is interested in a pact of mutual assistance with the U.S.S.R. against possible German aggression. . . . Wishing to establish conditions for a radical improvement in the relations between our countries . . . the Soviet government proposes the conclusion of a Soviet-Finnish pact...
Earlier this week, the House had rejected a measure to establish a "Little Dies Committee" on subversive activities...
...plenary session before discussing them in committee meetings. This led to oratory, parliamentary confusion, and few results beyond mounting tempers. Only when the conference turned at last to the International and National Commission level did any organization and perspective appear. The first, and most important suggestion is to establish a planning committee that could prepare a detailed agenda a few weeks before conferences. By contacting all participating colleges such a committee could coordinate the issues that would be raised with the delegates most capable of working on them. Then, with the topic presented in mimeographed form by the interested college...
...Establish price ceilings on basic cost-of-living items...
Though the university is municipally supported, Taylor has constantly drubbed the state legislature for money, always threatening to come back for more. He set a 15-citizen committee to work selling advance tickets for next year's football season, has suggested that Southern colleges establish a professional football league to increase their revenues (TIME, Sept. 22). Last week, he launched a new $300,000 fund-raising campaign-which is only the beginning: eventually he wants $17 million. Donors could see what they would be getting; Taylor has built models of future classrooms, complete with air conditioning and posture...