Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Give the people control of education, by popularly elected boards of education in each prefecture-with power to establish new schools, license teachers and select textbooks. Each prefecture would have an Allied civilian educator as full-time adviser, reducing Mombusho (the Department of Education) to a mere administrative agency. The Army has been using Mombusho as a transmission belt for its directives, encouraging what Dr. George D. Stoddard, chairman of the U.S. mission, called "the main obstacle in . . . re-educating Japan for democracy . . . Japan's tendency to work from the top down...
WASHINGTON--Soft coal operators were revealed tonight to have informed Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach that they fear the granting of a tonnage assessment to the United Mine Workers for a health and welfare fund would establish a precedent which other unions might attempt to follow
...developing industry he claimed the island could in time establish a balanced economy that would overcome the crippling grip of the one-crop system...
...establish the boundaries between international and national action," they reported, "we have grasped the fortunate circumstance that a dividing line can be drawn between dangerous and nondangerous activities." In short, they based their plan on scientists' belief that 1) atomic bombs can be made only with uranium, or with plutonium produced from it,* 2) neither uranium nor plutonium in certain mixtures (which are called denatured) can be made explosive except by extremely difficult, large-scale, time-consuming processes...
...Passed a bill "deeming" the husbandry of fur-bearing animals "an agricultural pursuit," but not until Illinois' Adolph J. Sabath and Georgia's Gene Cox had engaged in a colloquy to establish whether Henry Wallace is 1) a sparrow, 2) a dunce, 3) a capable and able gentleman...