Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Centers should be established where alcoholics and their families, clergymen, laymen and the family physician can find out how to prevent and treat alcoholism. (The Council itself will soon establish one such center in Manhattan as a beginning...
Home-Front Politics. By last month these long-neglected facts had aroused the U.S. Congress. Balding, shrewd Senator Francis T. Maloney (D., Conn.) began hearings before the Banking & Currency Committee on a bill to establish a Civilian Supply Administration responsible only to Assistant President James Francis Byrnes. That would place the civilian on an equal shouting basis with the Army, Navy, et al., when the U.S. supply pie is sliced...
Court tennis, the sport of kings, is almost as old as sport itself, but the game of tennis as played today is so young that one man's lifetime spans its entire history. Last week that man, prim old Bostonian Richard Dudley Sears, who helped establish the modern game of lawn tennis and was its first U.S. champion, died in Boston at 81. To Boston and Newport porch-sitters and nostalgic tennists everywhere, Dick Sears's death represented the end of an era of ruffles and parasols, roped-off lawns and sunny afternoons, lopsided tennis bats...
...grow up in a softer, more abundant life-and their gentility would not be impaired." George Donner's wife, Tamsen, took along "apparatus for preserving botanical specimens, water colors and oil paints, books and school supplies . . . for use in the young ladies' seminary which she hoped to establish in California...
Trying to establish the identity of the culprits responsible for what it calls "one of the biggest hoaxes in American history" the Crimson states that "it might be blamed on the students who took the test and answered it factious, but it seems logical to accuse the Times itself for distributing such a poll and taking the results so seriously...