Word: established
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Communism would earn the U.S. their pity. Headlong, all-out war would earn their everlasting hatred. They are waiting for U.S. decisions which ring with steadfast courage and calculations for final victory. In short, the U.S. must demonstrate that it knows what it's about before it can establish a solid prestige. And once it establishes that faith by its actions in Asia, there is a good chance that Europe can really be rearmed and defended...
...General Electric Company gave the school $307.000 to establish the Charles E. Wilson Professorship in Business Policy. The gift honors the 50 years service with G.E. of Wilson who was this week named head of the Office of Defense Mobilization...
Shortly after Franklin Roosevelt's death in 1945, his friends discussed plans to establish the Roosevelt Scholarships, an American counterpart to the Rhodes Scholarships. Students from all over the world would be brought to the United States for graduate study, just as the Rhodes awards annually bring men to Oxford in England. Nothing has ever come of this living memorial...
...establish Roosevelt Scholarships to Harvard would serve a double purpose. Not only would this plan honor FDR, but it also means that more foreign students would come to the University, which has previously had fewer foreigners per capita than the University of Chicago and Yale...
Harvard would seem the logical place to establish Roosevelt Scholarships; it is the university with which FDR had the closest ties, and it has a strong Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Harvard alumni and non-Harvard men who revere FDR could help to build international understanding by giving the money necessary to start these scholarships...