Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need hardly be added that this law did not have its origin in bigotry. The majority is not trying to establish a religion or to teach it-it is trying to protect itself from the effort of an insolent minority to force irreligion upon the children under the guise of teaching Science...
...least a portion of the 232 men of theory were men of action as well. Lionel Curtis, editor of The Round Table (London), led off for the visiting speakers with a concrete proposal for speedy mobilization of the opinions of nations on issues of international import : Let every nation establish its national telephone exchange. At an emergency, let all accredited national institutes be called up by expert publicists from the nation's capital. Let the consensus of these opinions be laid before the world...
...would establish an air base between Etah, Greenland (the expedition's intended boat base) and Cape Columbia, Grant Land (intended take-off for flights seeking the Pole and fabulous Crocker Land). Here gasoline, food, a radio-operator, smoke-bombs, an Eskimo and dog (for forced retreat), would be left...
...domestic films sent abroad measured 138,656,880 linear feet and were worth $5,417,745. Last year, similar exports were valued at $6,181,917 and totaled 170,347,342 feet. It is expected that 1925 will establish new high records for domestic footage exported. The money values here included represent only the cost of the actual positive prints shipped and not the income they produced from rentals. Total value of our foreign export business in films for this year is estimated at $75,000,000. Today, the foreign business of the large U. S. producers constitutes about...
...cash (carried in the black satchel) to Secretary of the Interior Fall when the Doheny leases were under consideration. In the Sinclair case, the only admitted payment to Fall was one of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds made after the latter had left office. The Government tried to establish that Fall had also received several hundred thousand dollars in Liberty Bonds which were the profits made by Sinclair in another transaction; but, with most of the witnesses of this alleged transaction out of the country, the evidence was fragmentary...