Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From first to last J. Arthur Rank's "Scott of the Antarctic" is a melodrama--in the most favorable sense of the word. It tells the story of Captain Robert Scott's last expedition in 1908 into the Antarctic waste. There are scenes in the film which establish the personal relationships of the five men who make the desperate final dash to the South Pole. Far more important than these relationships, however, is the common purpose of the men to reach the Pole before Amundsen, and to return before the setting of the sun brings the winter blizzards...
...defendants had taught their followers to prepare for the coming of some crisis-a depression, perhaps a war with Russia. At that point the revolutionists would spring into action. Through strikes and sabotage, they would paralyze the industrial machine, bring about the violent overthrow of the Government, establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Orders to follow such a course had come directly from Moscow, which maintained rigid discipline over its U.S. followers. The methods of the U.S.C.P. embraced lying, false swearing, secrecy (all characteristics of a conspiracy), and the whipping of aggrieved minorities into active resentment...
...unprecedented move the Law School Class of 1924, at its 25th Reunion dinner last night in the Hotel Continental, presented the Law School with a gift of $30,000 "to be used at the Deans' discretion." Dean Erwin N. Griswold accepting the donation said that the gift "will establish an endowed scholarship providing full tuition for two students at one time...
...government got a new flag. Against a red ground, it has one large yellow star, symbolizing Communist Party leadership, and four smaller yellow stars, symbolizing workers, farmers, petty bourgeoisie and national capitalists. Chairman Mao proclaimed: "This government is willing to establish diplomatic relations with any foreign government...
...vote of the Corporation, $50,000 of the donation will be used to establish the Class of 1924 Scholarship Fund, and the remainder, also in the neighborhood of $50,000, will go into a fund to pay the salaries of instructors in General Education. Provost Buck considered improvement of GE and enlargement of scholarship funds the "most urgent" needs of the College...