Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week President Hoover named three other commissions to make special investigations: 1) To advise the Government Departments on methods for revision of the statistical services for the determination of unemployment and to establish the method of co-operation between government departments and business. 2) To investigate the whole question of bankruptcy law and practice, to propose to Congress some essential reforms. 3) To study the practicability of a road from the U. S. to Alaska through and with the aid of Canada. Declared President Hoover: "To some who are anxious over the appointment of temporary committees and commissions...
Embargo Off. Impressed, Assistant Secretary Lowman decided that the Treasury had "gone off half-cocked." He revoked his pulpwood embargo. He admitted that the evidence "was conflicting and inconclusive . . . and not sufficient to establish the fact that the pulpwood was produced by convict labor...
...Duce also urged that the defeated "enemy countries" (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria) should enter the E. U. on "equal terms" with the victor states? that is, these nations should be permitted to re-establish their armies. This reply ranged Italy beside Germany in seeking revision of the Peace Treaties?a policy anathema to France. In Moscow the Soviet newsorgan Pravda, while appreciative of Italy's attempt to include Russia in the E. U., declared that, in view of the program of revision which Germany and Italy are seeking to force upon unwilling France, "the Briand scheme may be considered exploded...
...every German crisis there is always Article 48. Under this emergency provision of the Weimar Constitution: "The President, in the event that public security and order in the German nation should be considerably disturbed or endangered, may take all necessary measures to re-establish such public security and order, and, if required, to intervene with the aid of armed power. To this end he may provisionally abrogate, in whole or in part, the fundamental laws...
Controlled by Baltimore interests, the company will establish next June the first direct trans-Atlantic passenger service out of Baltimore since the War. Freight and mail (the company has an encouraging governmental mail contract) will be the most important revenue sources. The company will operate five oil-burning ships between Baltimore and Hamburg, must build others to hold its mail contract. These the U. S. Shipping Board, pleased at Baltimore's maritime enterprise, sold for $30,000 apiece; went further last week and awarded Baltimore Mail a generous loan ($6,540,000 at 3%) to be used for reconditioning...