Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends of Loyalist Spain. He referred all pleaders to the State Department, whose legalists gave his answer: The President is powerless to lift the embargo on Spain. The general Neutrality Act of May 1937 added civil war to the conditions in a foreign country under which the President must establish an embargo, if a "state of war" exists which endangers U. S. peace. But even if this act could be got round, the President is still bound by a joint resolution passed four months earlier by which Congress itself specifically embargoed arms to Spain...
WASHINGTON-The United States today emerged victorious in an international race to establish trans-Atlantic plane service when Great Britain gave Pan-American Airways permission to inaugurate service in advance of British Imperial Airways...
...Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., were up to together in recent meetings (TIME. Nov. 23, et ante). The Mortimer-Frankensteen faction this week asked a circuit court in Detroit to restrain Homer Martin from consummating an "illegal conspiracy" with Ford "to disrupt the union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union votes) to Mr. Martin and put Ford Motor Co. on good terms with the National Labor Relations Board. This would also...
...dean of U. S. pathologists, shifting his big cigar to the other side of his mouth, "where my career started.'' He told how he had met great Dr. John Shaw Billings in Auerbach's Keller half a century before, how he and Billings had worked to establish at Johns Hopkins the first modern medical school in the U. S. Then he launched into a glowing description of Johns Hopkins' new Institute of the History of Medicine and the library that was to bear his name...
...left to "establish a fund in aid of the Harvard Law School," and this fund is to be known as the "Emory Washburn Memorial Fund, endowed by a member of the Class of 1872." Only the income may be used, but there are no other restrictions as to use of the money by the Law School. Although it is not known how the bequest will be invested, it would seem to be a safe prediction that the income will amount to at least $20,000 a year and probably more...