Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...domestic relations court, at $19,500 a year. Waltemade is a leader in the Bronx Democratic machine, which also bitterly opposed Impellitteri. Having thus rewarded his certified enemies, the retiring mayor crossed the East River into the borough of Brooklyn and rented a room in the Towers Hotel, to establish a residence in Kings County...
First with the Best. It was not always so. The Jesuits had no permanent headquarters in England until the mid-19th century, when official tolerance at last encouraged them to establish one. In 1840 a delegation of Jesuit priests, cautiously clad in secular clothes with top hats, paid ?5,800 for the Farm Street leasehold in what was then a stifling congestion of stables and cab-choked cobble streets. But as Mayfair spread out and the Edwardian upper crust turned the stables into mews flats, Farm Street became top-drawer. The best known Farm Street figure of this elegant...
Influential Friend. From that time on, American-born Melinda MacLean worked single-mindedly at the business of trying to rejoin her husband. Donald, says World, was able to establish contact with her through Soviet agents. Melinda moved first to France and then to Switzerland to make the job easier. Donald pleaded with his Soviet bosses to let Melinda come to him, but as an American and a nonparty member, Melinda was felt to be too great a risk. All the Communists would offer was a "We'll see," while Melinda waited in Switzerland...
Before an audience including seven governors at the centenary festivities of the coffee-booming state of Paraná, the grand old (70) man of Brazilian politics told how he wanted to set up an Eletrobrás agency comparable to the Petrobrás recently established-under the hemisphere's most nationalistic oil law-to administer and develop Brazil's petroleum resources (TIME, Sept. 28). Warmed by the applause, Vargas struck out in strident tones at the U.S.-and Canadian-owned power companies: "I must say to you that up to a certain point I am being sabotaged...
...first thing they uncovered was the vivid and reassuring eye of the original horse, "so different from the dull look of the repaint" as to establish at once that they had made a find. Last week the original head stood entirely revealed. Far livelier and more graceful than the overpainted one, it had no bridle (although the reins were still to be removed...