Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last nine or ten years, with but one exception, 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 at the same time tend to establish closer relations between the English and American churches and universities...
Recommendation No. 4 was the most important, stirred up the most comment, because it involved a change in the system of punishing liquor law violators. Rejecting proposals to increase the U. S. Judiciary, to establish inferior or "police" courts, the Commission suggested a modified use of existing courts. Its purpose was to get around the "cumbersome procedure of indictment and trial by jury" for petty offenders whose cases clog the courts. The Constitution calls for indictments and jury trials for "infamous crimes." The Supreme Court has held that offenses punishable by less than a year in jail are not "infamous...
...York University bounded out of its academic bed last week with a new, learned periodical, the Air Law Review. It was the first U. S. institution to establish a full school of Aeronautics with help of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. Therefore it considered itself having a preemption on academic Aeronautics. Last August N. Y. U. roused itself when Northwestern University at Chicago set up an Air Law Institute on the model of the Koenigsberg Institut für Luftrecht, established in 1924 as the world pioneer. N. Y. U. promised itself a similar institute...
...order to establish a background by the exposition of his research results. Dr. Weiss first described the fundamental features of the human circuitry system. He then examined the causes of high blood pressure, saying at that the most common direct cause lay constant nervous excitement or inherited super-sensitiveness of the vasmotor center of the brain, the governing nervous factor of the heart and the arteries. He pointed out that many patients who are afflicted with high blood pressure experience no ill effects or a long time after they have developed it. While in others its presence is made known...
Providence. Rhode Island's Attorney-General Oscar Heltzen worked to establish manslaughter charges against the crew of the C. G. 290. When three U. S. Treasury agents tried to enter his inquiry, he ordered them out. declaring: "This is a State affair. You're coming here to listen in and since you won't cooperate, I don't intend to let you in for that purpose...