Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chair, Goodie Knight had declared for another term in Sacramento. After Knowland and Nixon forces pressured Knight into the Senate race, Knight lost considerable face in party ranks. Should gregarious, pro-labor Goodie Knight pull more votes for the Senate than Knowland gets for Govenor, Goodie would doubtless establish himself as (next to Vice President Nixon) the state's top-dog Republican...
...current court case concerning the construction of the Armenian Holy Trinity Church on Brattle St. may establish the limits of local communities' authority in applying zoning regulations to religious and educational institutions...
...lawyers for the Church, working on a different aspect of the problem than is Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge, and Rugg, can establish a "hardship case," it may be able to by-pass the Cambridge ruling under a clause that allows exceptions in cases when other residents of the area would not be unduly inconvenienced...
...symbol of liberated France. Styling himself Provisional President, De Gaulle was unanimously confirmed in that office by the reconstituted National Assembly. Fortified by his conviction that "France, betrayed by her elite and her privileged groups, will never be the same as the prewar France," he set out to establish the strong executive that the Third Republic had so desperately lacked...
...bitter, two-year struggle -regarded as a test case for all North American railroads -the giant. 17,000-mile Canadian Pacific Railway Co. finally wrested an admission from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen that a fireman has no useful function on an oil-fired diesel locomotive. To establish the principle, the C.P.R. proposed to remove firemen from yard and freight diesels. Arguing passionately that the fireman was vital as a safety lookout, the union last week tried to shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched in dismay as their fellow rail workers coolly crossed picket lines...