Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sever, who died a childless widower in 1941, directed in his will that $1,622,-482 of his fortune be used to establish a "technological school" in his native Missouri. As soon as the will was published, six Missouri colleges put in a claim. The Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, Mr. Sever's trustee, ran for cover, leaving the Cook County Court to appoint a three-man committee to interpret the will. On the premise that Mr. Sever's intention was to set up a new school and not to expand one already existing...
...General Courtney H. Hodges' U.S. First Army had that situation well in hand. General Leonard's 9th Armored Division could turn southeast to hit the Rhine and envelop more of its west bank. Leonard gave an open order: keep going; if you reach the river try to establish a crossing and hold...
...money came from an older brother, the late Edgar Addison Bancroft, crack corporation lawyer and onetime U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1924-25). It will be used to establish the Edgar A. and Frederic Bancroft Foundation at Columbia...
...archangel"), his fierce denunciations of things Irish ("I don't think the Irish peasant represents a very admirable type of culture"), the "plague of Catholicism," and the Jesuits ("He spurned before him the stale maxims of the Jesuits and . . . swore an oath that they should never establish over him an ascendancy...
Since 1900 their population has increased 53% (from 237,000 to 377,000*). John Collier, who hopes to establish an organization to help all U.S. minorities, thinks that eventually his Indian friends can become happily integrated with the U.S. economy. "But," says he, "the main thing now is that at least they have a will to live...