Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barry case paddles its way through the backwaters of the Senate Judiciary committee, a vindicated body of national representatives resumes its interrupted ritual and marks time until today at 4 P.M., when it will again have the opportunity to establish its dignity by clever thrusts at a bewildered sinner...
...National banks, on the basis of capitalization and population, may establish branches in States permitting branch banking...
Though he was in England, apparently in disgrace, during the "ten days that shook the world" (Nov. 7-17, 1917), as best-informed British expert on Russia he was considered indispensable. Early the following year he was sent back again as head of a special mission, to establish unofficial relations with the Bolsheviks. His job: "to do as much harm to the Germans as possible, to put a spoke in the wheels of the separate peace negotiations, and to stiffen ... the Bolshevik resistance to German demands." His complicated and delicate job was made harder by the muddled policy...
...budget deduction it would make possible. It extends beyond even the stimulus to trade which would result from having our Allied debtors forgive their debtors as we forgive them, and wiping the whole complicated web of inter-governmental obligations starkly from the slate. It would reach even beyond re-establishing the self curative factors which Sir Arthur Salter attests to be the property of all healthy depressions, and which were bound and buried by the enormous extensions of private credit and the contraction of trade which were the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. The great thing would...
...Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies." In 1698, "amidst the tears and prayers of relatives and friends and countrymen," he, his wife and child accompanied 1,200 colonists to Darien. They settled between Porto Bello and Cartagena, two strong Spanish ports, there intended to build a canal and establish a free trade route "whereby to Britain would be secured the key to the universe, enabling their possessors to give laws to both oceans and to become the arbiters of a commercial world." The Spanish soon drove the colony out. Paterson's family died. He returned to England, helped...