Word: established
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...career was not enough, and during the Depression, Adam Powell emerged as a Negro nationalist and a skilled leader. He helped establish a church relief program in Harlem, dished out a thousand free meals a day in the church basement, quickly became a civic mover and shaker. He early recognized and utilized the latent strength of Harlem, was able to force such commercial giants as Liggett Drug stores and Consolidated Edison to employ Negroes. When the New York Telephone Co. balked at his demands, Powell threatened to disrupt the system by instructing his followers to dial the operator for every...
...could be reconciled with the "American constitutional principles" separating church and state. Smith replied in the next issue. "I believe in the absolute separation of church and state," he said, "and in the strict enforcement of the provisions of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church...
...along Tibet's southern borders, Red China has been working overtime lately to put its neigh bors back to sleep. In January, Red China agreed to recognize the traditional (but never actually marked) McMahon Line as its common border with Burma. Last week Red China agreed to establish a joint committee to delineate with Nepal its boundary with Tibet. Until the committee completes its work, both nations agreed to "ensure tranquillity" by refraining from sending troops within 20 kilometers of the presumed border...
...Ghana, government backbenchers recently expressed fears of Israeli domination. To leave no doubt of Israel's intentions, Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir toured West Africa last month, leaving behind her this promise, in the words of Israel's Ambassador: "We are not trying to establish ourselves in Africa. There are no Jewish settlements, no synagogues. As soon as our work of assisting is completed, we will move out and move...
...offset the flood of foreign cotton imports. Bruised by competition from abroad, domestic cotton manufacturers recommended that each foreign country be limited to the volume of its 1955 cotton exports to the U.S. Otherwise, U.S. textile producers will be placed in the position where they will have to establish overseas plants to take advantage of less expensive foreign manufacturing facilities...