Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Platt Amendment to the U. S. Army Appropriation Bill of 1901 provided in part: 1) that no foreign power should ever obtain lodgment in or establish control over Cuba. 2) that Cuba should contract no debt for which the revenues were inadequate. 3) that the United States might intervene to preserve independence, order, and Republican government, and to sec that Cuba discharged her obligations to other nations...
...Government. Thus has U. S. business come to adopt views which would have shocked its fathers, which are still shocking other parts of the world: police in Barcelona were still busy last week trying to suppress a "subversive movement,'' fostered by anarchists and syndicalists, to establish a six-hour day in that city...
...meeting it was decided to have a radio debate with one of the English universities next season, probably Oxford. Last year a similar debate was held with Oxford, and was the first debate ever to be broadcast across the ocean. It was also decided to make an attempt to establish intramural debating with a House program...
...when the stranger makes advances to the village belle (Magda Schneider) in whom the singer has taken an interest. The situation is untangled when she demands a serenade. When police try to arrest the swindler they naturally get the wrong man. Then comes the anticipated scene in which, to establish his identity, Enrico Ferraro sings arias from Rigoletto at police headquarters...
...this, or perhaps partly because of this, 1a is a splendid introduction to the field of Fine Arts. The lectures during the first half-year, given by Professor Pope assisted by Mr. Feild, outline the principles of drawing, painting, and design in a concrete and intelligent fashion, and they establish the vocabulary which is used in the later part of the course in analysis of the great masters of the historical schools of painting...