Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the northwesternmost outpost of Europe moved a little closer to the U.S. By vote of its 1,011-year-old Althing ("Grandmother of Parliaments"), Iceland cut its last ties with Nazi-ruled Denmark, renounced the sovereignty of Danish Christian X, moved to establish a republic...
...churchgoers asking clemency for a wife murderer who had since got religion and stopped drinking, turkey-necked Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia declared: "I wish you Christian people would help me establish whipping posts for drunkards. A dressing down . . . in front of the Courthouses would make them quit this foolishness...
Under the democracy that a British and American victory would establish, individuals and States of individuals could strive of their own will toward the highest good, the betterment of mankind, the ideal of brotherly love which is democratic as much as Christian...
...promising. One way, a plan for "rehabilitation" of rejected men, was proposed last fortnight by Colonel Samuel Joseph Kopetzky, new president of the New York State Medical Society. He suggested that the Army provisionally induct all men with "remediable defects" such as hernia, bad teeth, venereal disease, etc., and establish hospitals to cure them. But the Army's Surgeon General James Carre Magee said, unofficially, no soap-the Army has its hands full already...
...good doctor and replace him. His true identity and devious intentions eventually reveal themselves to Nyoka, who, with the aid of Aviator Jack Stanton and his pal, Curly, manages to turn the diamonds into safe U.S. dollars after assuring the natives that the cash will be used to establish a medical foundation to improve their health...