Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recreation to the soldier in his spare moments is a serious one. The Y. M. C. A. has long recognized its importance in the building up of a healthy morale, and has given ample outlet to this instinctive desire in frequent entertainments. The Government has now seen fit to establish Liberty Theatres at all important training points...
...University has received a gift of $5,500 to establish the Robert Darrah Jenks Scholarship in memory of the graduate of that name of the Class of 1897. For the duration of the war the income is to be applied for such war measures as the University may desire. After the war the income is to be used to support a scholarship in Railroad...
...University has received a gift to establish the "William Henry Meeker '17 Scholarship," to be awarded "for excellence in some of the English courses." Announcement of the reception of this gift was made yesterday afternoon by the University authorities...
...bill to establish a supreme war council will be discussed in Congress today. Although the Administration objects to its passage, yet many men in both House and Senate favor the measure. The plan, in short, is to establish a board of about three members, which will supervise and co-operate our commercial and industrial activity. Meetings, which the President is expected to attend, will be held very frequently. Although this council is intended to be superior to the Cabinet, in that it coordinated the activity of the secretaries with that of the specially-appointed regulators such as Mr. Hoover...
...developed the military airplane to a remarkable extent, and in so doing has built up the commercial machine. Numerous attempts were made before 1914 to establish aerial postal routes, or freight service between places with poor railroad connection. A project has lately appeared to start such a system between London and Paris. Although crossing the Channel was an unusual feat eight years ago, the recent progress in aviation has made that same trip an every-day occurrence. We have read that the governor of Rhode Island traveled by this method when he visited France not long ago. What was seldom...