Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pierre and daughter Lilita moved to Paris. Senora Rosalie was left alone in Havana with her 120 simians. Last week in her sumptuous Villa Palatino she died at the age of 65, cut off her unappreciative children without a single monkey, left the lot to be established by President Machado as an endowed and public Cuban monkeyhouse. "It was largely her pioneer work," said Director William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological Park (Bronx Zoo), "which influenced Professor Robert M. Yerkes, head of the Yale psychology department, to establish the Yale station for research on anthropoid apes at Orange...
Last week Joseph Michael Schenck, president of United Artists, said his company would not let its pictures appear in Fox theatres anywhere in the country. His accusation: that the Fox West Coast chain of 400 theatres was trying to establish a monopoly. His reason: Fox West Coast Theatres were refusing to pay what United Artists thought their pictures were worth.* His proposed plan of combat: building United Artists Theatres in 18 cities and meanwhile exhibiting the company's product in armories and tents if necessary. Possible result: temporary boycotting of Fox theatres, if other companies share Mr. Schenck's conviction...
...Pittsburgh, Ralph Schugar, 38, got a pilot's license, will establish funeral service with aerial hearses. Said Ralph Schugar: "I believe it is the coming thing...
...CRIMSON in its own examination of the subject has formulated a tentative plan. According to this proposal, the various houses would be tuthorized to establish days when the residents could entertain as outlined above. These days might be once a week, once a month, whenever the occasion seems to be suitable. The organization of the House Plan permits what the old dormitory system did not; all gates but one may be closed and unattended guests excluded; private baths eliminate the danger of meeting half dressed men coming from the showers; house responsibility with tutors sharing in the life...
...population of 22,835-whereas big Greenland with an area 84 times as great (46,740 sq. mi.) has a population of only 14,355. "In my opinion," said Prime Minister Stauning, "there is room in the Faroe Islands for private initiative and the investment of capital to establish repair stations equipped with large petroleum and benzine tanks to supply the Diesel-engined fishing vessels which are becoming very numerous." Of Greenland's trade the Prime Minister said cautiously: "It is well to wait and see how the country develops. The seal industry which was once very prosperous...