Word: established
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...American takes no action, the Philippine Islands will soon be ripe for a successful Communist-becked popular uprising. The United States will then be forced to put down the revolt with American troops and to establish martial law, or to give up the twenty-three military, naval, and air bases she holds in the Islands...
...will was probated in the spring of 1949, and each school received $150,000 for the following fiscal year. Princeton chose to use her share to establish professorships and fellowships in General Science and Engineering, releasing men from teaching duties to carry on research...
...also given yesterday to the revised graduate dormitory parietal rules, which were prelimin- arily announced by Dean Rogers after last month's Faculty meeting. The new rules end the chaperonage system; set curfews ranging from 7 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on various days of the week; and establish hearings for violations before the Graduate or Law Dormitory Council
...referenda that have caused the biggest arguments are three and four. The former would lower the age at which citizens become eligible for old-age pensions from 65 to 63, and raise the monthly allowance from an average of $40 to a minimum of $75; the latter would establish a state-run lottery. The legislature voted down the lottery proposal in 1935, but in 1940 the people in 30 of the state's 40 senatorial districts voted to advise their senators to support it if it were again brought up. This year, faced with an issue that can be debated...
Numbers one and two would amend the constitution: the first to establish an order of succession to the governorship between election and inauguration, the second to increase the number of signatures required under the initiative and referendum rule for putting a question on the ballot. The amendemnt would make this number about 60,000 instead of the present...