Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Hankow up popped Father Jacquinot once more to establish another area for refugees. He beat the Japanese into the city, arranged to use the French Concession and former British, German and Russian Concessions as his "safety zone." Into the area he hurried 100,000 Chinese who chose to remain...
Iowa made this discovery accidentally. In 1917 a Mrs. Cora Bussey Hillis, whose own children had died and who argued that the State should pay as much attention to the welfare of children as of hogs, got the State Legislature to establish a Child Welfare Research Station at the university...
...principal sources of ill feeling, he said. "Seward with an eye on the Irish vote and an ignorance of international law was apt to overplay his hand and mingle well founded protests at British violations with unjustified demands for concessions." Both nations realized that their actions would establish precedents for later diplomacy...
...unproductive for both democratic and dictator countries to widen the division now existing between them by emphasizing their differences, which are self-apparent. Instead of hammering away at what are regarded as irreconcilables, they could advantageously bend their energies toward solving their common problems by an attempt to re-establish good relations on a world basis...
...from café society, ostentatious gambling for large stakes, misconduct with "Aryan" actresses. When cinema morals were under fire in 1922, the Hays Organization was given the job of raising the standards of personal behavior among cinema performers. Confronted with the problem of their own behavior, producers proposed to establish an organization along somewhat similar lines, for which Chicago Adman Albert Davis Lasker was proposed as unpaid head, to help cinemagnates guide and regulate their private lives...