Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech still treasured by collectors of political palaver. At one point, to establish Lucas' superiority over Henry Wallace, Kelly solemnly told the convention that Senator Lucas was "a member of no thinking group...
...operating in the State Department and the armed services. No officers were involved, he said, but ranking civilian officials cooperated. Once Chambers was dispatched to the West Coast with $10,000 to finance operatives there. Spies were recruited for service in Japan, Germany, France, Finland and China. Chambers helped establish the Japanese ring, heard later that at least one of. his recruits was liquidated after losing enthusiasm for his work...
...would like very much to associate this gift with the spirit of Christmas." With these words Industrialist Myron C. Taylor last week presented Cornell University with a Christmas present that was notable indeed-$1,500,000. Its purpose: to establish a student interfaith building in memory of his wife. The new structure will contain a chapel dedicated to Cornell men who died in World War II, an "All Nations" room, an auditorium, and offices for twelve cooperating church groups. Episcopalian Taylor (Cornell law school 1894; presidential envoy to the Vatican since 1939) has already given the university its law school...
...newly won southern territory, MacArthur reasoned, the Reds would soon be able to establish bases from which an airborne conquest of thinly guarded Okinawa would be a cinch. The waters from Okinawa to Hokkaido could be patrolled by their 100 long-range submarines. In short, the fall of China, MacArthur observed, had made possible the military threat of a "double envelopment" of Japan. There was no evidence of an impending Soviet attack. If it came, it could only precipitate, or be part of, the world's worst war. But the business of a commander is not to guess whether...
Currently on leave from his Chicago position, Ackerman is in Japan, helping to establish a national resources planning board under the occupation authorities...