Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great reform governors. To win that office (in 1910) he smashed the grip which the Southern Pacific had long held on California politics. After his victory, his father, the railroad's attorney, refused to speak to him for ten years. Hi Johnson, the rebel, went on to establish workmen's compensation, woman suffrage, the initiative, referendum and recall. In 1912 he entered national politics when he bolted the G.O.P. with Teddy Roosevelt...
...Pleven proposal was, in effect, a supplementary income tax. But if it became law, which seemed likely, it would establish a principle* which might well ring the tocsin for French capitalism...
Last week, the Securities & Exchange Commission approved Newton's reorganization plan. It will be sent immediately to R.M.F.'s stockholders. The plan: establish a new corporation to liquidate the company, or borrow enough money (at least $350,000) to continue mining...
...wise child that knows his own father, but henceforth the Rh* factor will make it easier to establish paternity. Brooklyn's famed Blood-Expert Alexander Wiener pointed out last week that there are eight Rh blood types (instead of two, as hitherto believed). The factors are inherited and can be used to prove whether a given man could possibly be a given child's father. The Rh factors raise possible blood-type combinations to 288, raise an innocent man's chances of proving non-paternity from one in three...
...from Chungking: "This was the first concrete move of the Communists to set up a government of their own. It meant that the Communists are now not only rejecting the current People's Political Council in Chungking as a representative body of opinion, but are going further and establishing a parallel Communist council. It means that, as of today, the Communists no longer consider the promise of Chiang Kai-shek nor his proponent national assembly as an adequate program for unity; and that they are on their own preparing to establish another national assembly. This would be based...