Word: charter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charter subscriber. First complaint. You refer to Wayne B. Wheeler as "high salaried." Wasn't. Got $8,000 a year. All he'd take...
Another common error is in stating there were 13 colonies at the time of the Revolutionary war. Pennsylvania was not a colony of Great Britain in the same sense that New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc., were colonies ruled by British. According to the charter granted William Penn his domain was a Province, owned entirely by Penn and his heirs until the time of the Revolutionary war, with the inhabitants paying rental or taxes to the Pern family. While the government con- trolled the Province by certain legislation yet Pennsylvania was a government by a Proprietor until the Declaration...
...largest city-manager city is Cleveland. Dr. Hatton wrote Cleve land's present charter, effective since 1924. Cleveland's city man ager is William Rowland Hop kins, portly, amiable, obedient, elder brother of famed Stage Producer Arthur Hopkins...
...emphasized the aim of the Conference-to discover theological differences, not dispute them; to survey the grounds common to all the branches of Christianity, and then draw up the charter of a United Church in the form of reports which the delegates would take back to their churches for ratification...
Shrewd, enterprising Aimee Semple McPherson last week consummated a promise: she obtained a charter from the State of Illinois to establish in Chicago headquarters for her proposed "Navy of the Lord," evangelical organization to be modeled after the Salvation Army. Her tabernacles are to be called "Four Square Gospel Lighthouses," are to have towers imitative of the U. S. Coast Guard lighthouses. Mrs. McPherson, stout-hearted against mockery, is to call herself "Admiral." Her underlings will assume naval titles, naval-like costumes...