Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also adopted. This second adopted child is now grown and the mother of adopted Barbara Rounsevell. Because of an old quarrel with the Colon steamship agents, resulting in the loss of two full pages of daily advertising in the Panama American, "N. R." is now bending every effort to establish an intercontinental road through Panama. The completion of this road will afford Publisher Rounsevell a great deal of pleasure, especially if it results in a loss of business to the shipping companies...
...first successful attempts to establish primarily theological seminaries in Colonial New England and Virginia, with their earliest, long vanished halls and their varying versions of the Georgian vernacular" of the 18th century...
...associate themselves with the labor movement in the educational field, a group of 30 to 35 younger members of the Economics, Government, Sociology, and Philosophy Departments are planning to establish a local Harvard chapter of the American Federation of Teachers which is directly connected with the American Federation of Labor...
This same coal strike had been called five times, postponed five times since February (TIME, April 8, et seq.). Chief reason given for the postponements was that both sides were waiting for the passage of the Guffey Coal Bill to establish a "little NRA" in the soft coal industry, assure miners good wages and operators good prices. The Guffey Bill had been passed three weeks, and the National Bituminous Coal Commission and the Bituminous Coal Labor Board, which were to settle production and wage questions, had been appointed three days when the strike finally came off this week. When puzzled...
...Zook-Rockefeller-Rainey Commission will begin with a survey of all the youth, recreation and health programs in the country, try to bring some order into them. To drum up interest it will hold public forum meetings and when it has made up its mind about improvements, it will establish demonstration centres to popularize them...