Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideals, to forms more sutable for competition in an industrial age. Force alone cannot hold together a country as wide-spread and as poorly provided with means of transportation as China; a fact amply proved by the failure of any of the generals who have made the bid to establish a secure government during the decades just passed. So the progress of the Revolution has really been the story of a search for a code of political ideals that would win the moral support of the people...
...Secretary of War, was selected by President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 16). A question immediately arose: who could fill the vacated Assistant Secretaryship? From that post Dwight Filley Davis had gone into the Cabinet succeeding the late Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; Mr. Hurley's elevation seemed to establish the precedent that War Department assistant secretaries are full secretaries in embryo. So, for five months the President of the U. S. weighed carefully the qualifications of candidates. Last week he sent his choice to the Senate: Frederick Huff Payne, Lieut. Colonel in the Ordnance Reserve Corps, Board Chairman...
...last ten years the Noble lecture has been used as an occasion to invite visiting scholars and churchmen from England to Harvard in the hope that by their speaking here they might tend to establish closer relations between English and American churches and universities...
...late '60s Johns Hopkins, wealthy Quaker merchant of Baltimore, provided money to establish there a University which would include a hospital and a medical school. Much preliminary preparation was necessary before the medical school could be opened. Finally, in 1883, needing a pathologist to open the school, the trustees despatched an emissary to Germany to find one. The Germans sent the emissary back to the U. S. "Find Welch," they said. "We have no one bigger...
...announcement of courses for next year in the Cambridge School of the Drama shows an unmistakable tendency on the part of the directors to make the instruction practical rather than academic. To establish such a method, however, naturally presupposes considerable equipment which they do not at present own and the chief problem that presents itself in this situation is just how extensive such program of expansion should be at such an early period...