Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Williamson, for instance, finding that no birth record of Waldron-Dennis was available in Seattle, was able to establish Aug. 10, 1905 as his birth date by digging through the public school records. From old Seattle city directories he found four addresses where the Waldron family had once lived. After ringing a score of doorbells in these neighborhoods and making dozens of telephone calls, he turned...
...committee begged Mrs. Clauson to attend the ball as a "hostess" along with the 25 losing contestants. They pleaded that proceeds of the ball were to establish a civilian-worker welfare fund. They took her shopping, bought her a complete new outfit and a few hours in a beauty parlor. They arranged to pick her up in a 1949 Lincoln. Mrs. Clauson relented. All over the base, signs went up: "Our Queen Eva will be there tonight-how about...
...chief government agency in the drive for production is the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Corp., set up in 1942 under the wartime governorship of Rexford Guy Tugwell. PRIDC, which has spent about $27 million to establish new industries (the new island budget allots $1,700,000 for the corporation), started the ball rolling by setting up five factories to make cement, glass, paper board, shoe-leather products, clay products. Later, it began a hard driving campaign to sell private companies on Puerto Rico as a place for business...
With this groundwork prepared, Hughes blasted the U.N. subcommission, and claimed it had "drafted a code to establish what newspapers in this country and throughout the world may and may not publish." This code, wrote Hughes, "could supercede the first amendment of the Constitution if adopted as a treaty by the senate...
...relief drive in the spring of 1947. Under the leadership of Clemens Heller, an Austrian born graduate student, Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48, and Scott B. Elledge, and English instructor, a group of undergraduates developed the idea of school where student's of all nationalities could come together and establish international friendship and understanding. With the sponsorship of the Students Council, they rented an eighteenth century castle, Leopoldskron, outside the Austrian city of Salzburg from the widow of producer Max Rinehardt. They convinced several well-known American teachers of the soundness of their idea, among whom were Professors Wassily Leontief...