Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner. One bill called for a complete monthly collection of employment figures by the Department of Labor to replace the present hit-or-miss system which keeps even the President of the U. S. ignorant as to the number of jobless. The other bill would establish a $150,000,000 public building program which the U. S. on short notice could swing into the breach of any future labor depression. Enactment of these measures was anticipated...
From London this week by transoceanic telephone, Charles Gates Dawes, Chicago citizen, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was ready to send a five-minute speech to a Chicago Better Business Bureau dinner "to establish the truth about the city as a good place to live and do business...
Fall did not take the witness stand in his own defense. Perhaps because he let others try to establish his intent, his jury disbelieved his honesty, convicted him. Doheny, in his trial, took the stand, insisted his intent was good, that the money was only a friendly loan from which he expected no favors. Perhaps it was because he spoke for himself that the jury believed his honesty, freed...
...coast of Asia, the southern extremity of Japan. When southern waters grow too tepid, the seals return to their islands, the cows to breed their young, the bulls to fast and later copulate, the pups to learn how to swim, the "bachelor" seals (males under seven years old) to establish their separate colony and conduct small restless migrations of their...
...hunters had been there. Such men as Boone, Harrod, and Logan, each had returned with glowing tales of boundless fields of cane, of the rich soil, and of the numberless deer and buffalo. Aroused by these reports, little groups of pioneers fought their way over the trace to establish communities in the new country. Kentuck was not, however, the Utopia of all men's dreams. The Indians held it unlucky and used it for their battle ground. They resented the foreigner's intrussion, doing all in their power to hinder the building of the new forts...