Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bursts of laughter and applause, inspired by crowd antics that had nothing to do with the President's words, rose up. Harry Truman ignored the noise and plodded on, making no-attempt at oratory, never gesturing, rarely raising his eyes from his brown leather notebook. He sought to establish a historical precedent for his limited-war policy: "Our aims in Korea are just as clear and just as simple as the things for which we fought in the American Revolution. We did not fight that war to drive the British out of the North American continent ... to destroy...
...pusillanimous Sultan Abdul Mejid. A sternly upright and able young man with compassionate and liberal convictions, Midhat was soon serving as a trouble-shooter in one tense corner after another of the sprawling Ottoman empire. His determined efforts to abolish slave labor, wipe out anti-Christian discrimination and establish schools and colleges went far to pacify Turkey's perennially rebellious Balkan provinces and to infuriate the Russians, who dreamed of a Balkan empire all their...
...modesty and humility. Later in Nanking, his blandishments worked well enough to convince General Marshall, who spoke of "friendship and personal esteem" for Chou, that "there is a definite liberal group among the Communists . . . who would put the interests of the Chinese people above ruthless measures to establish a Communist ideology...
Last year Mrs. Morso gave Yale over $1,000,000 to finance research by young faculty members. In January she made a second gift of $1,000,000 to establish a fund for study of world affairs and a professorship in the Medical School. She stipulated that both gifts remain anonymous until after her death...
Several large gifts went to the Business School. J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc. donated $25,000 to establish a John Peters Stevens Memorial Fund to provide financial aid for students, while the Grant Foundation, Inc, gave $27,000 for scholarships in the Business School and for research in the School of Public Health...