Word: established
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...credit of the University of California. Though head of the largest banking organization in the U. S., Giannini refuses wealth. His gift to education was a gift to him, representing five per cent of the bank's profits last year voted to him by his directors. It will establish the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. Simultaneously shrewd Yankees in Vermont raised a six million dollar endowment for a college at Bennington. The students will be women; their studies designed specially to develop special talents; the curriculum fashioned to prepare students for "problems of a modern woman's world...
...twin children of Thomas Mann, the well known author, said that they had come to America for two reasons: primarily to tell Americans about a unification of Europe; and secondly to suggest grounds that America and Germany might have in common, which could help to establish a closer relationship between the two countries...
Boston, it has often been said, is in the last stages of decay--its ancient and vaunted "culture" gone to places where is will be more appreciated. Novels and magazine articles have been written on the subject, and trial cases have been fought in Boston's police court to establish the right of culture to be forced down decadent throats by authors and publishers of more learned cities...
Well aware of these facts, David A. Schulte, tobacco store potentate, is entering the trinket store field on a grand scale. With an investment of $35,000,000. of which $10,000,000 will be preferred stock, he plans to establish at least 1,000 stores selling household utensils, wearing apparel, books, miscellany, at prices from 5? to $1. Already he has five henchmen scouring the U. S. for favorable sites. In the appearance of his shops and in the quality of his merchandise, Mr. Schulte promises to give the public its eye's worth and its money...
...Administration's avowed purpose in Nicaragua originally was to establish a constitutional government. Subsequent events have been well described as a case of "getting a bear by the tail." Last week the Administration avoided grasping another bear's tail. The State Department declined to supervise an election imminent in the Republic of Panama...