Word: establish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gifford was testifying on the bill offered by Senator James Couzens of Michigan to establish a Federal Communications Commission. This Commission would regulate valuation, profits and service rates of telephone and telegraph companies. Theoretically such companies are now regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission but that potent agency, already overwhelmed with its railroad work, has never attempted to exercise communications control beyond receiving financial statements and ordering changes in accounting methods...
...newspaper story would have so vindicated Harvard's reputation as to obviate all further discussion. But yesterday at a hearing before the Rules Committee of the Massachusetts legislature the treasurer of the Corporation made known the strange news that in March 1928 the Comptroller was in a position to establish a definite agreement with the Wage Board through the mere sending of a formal letter...
...plugs, tubes, grills, meters, other complicated instruments of broadcasting science. At 6 a. m. one cold, black morning last week, there stood brawny Harold Vivian, chief control room operator. He had been on duty all night making tests. Now he was watching the chief engineer and assistants inspect apparatus, establish contact with outlying stations. A hushed, nervous expectancy filled the room. In a half-minute they would begin broadcasting to 59 stations in the U. S. and Canada, a prime program...
...several complete examples are on view, together with a collection of obscene statuettes, which the Clergy deny were carved by Russian monks in their monastery leisure. In Tiflis the 100-ton chimes of the Cathedral were recently melted down and sums raised by selling the metal were spent to establish the Tiflis Workers...
...south wall is the group of the Royall family painted by Feke. Isaac Royall was a Boston merchant who, dying in 1781, provided in his will for a Harvard professorship of law or physic. It was not, however, until 1815 that the Corporation, which had chosen to establish a professorship of law, was able to do so. The Royall Professorship is, next to the Vinerian at Oxford, the oldest named professorship of law in the English-speaking world. The picture has the distinction of being the only painting in the Law School that includes women. On each side...