Word: charter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Renewing her subscription, a charter subscriber wants at the same time to express her belief that TIME has fulfilled its promises and her expectations of four years ago, in every particular. She would hate giving up Atlantic and Harper's monthly magazines, Christian Century, Saturday Review of Literature, or the daily New York Times, but rather than to do without TIME, she believes herself willing to forego almost any two of the others in its favor...
...bank branches in towns of less than 25,000 population and only one branch in towns between 25,000 and 50,000. The chief aim of the McFadden-Pepper bill is to enable national banks to compete more effectively with state banks. 2) That the Federal Reserve Banks' charter, which expires in 1934, be renewed for an "indeterminate" period. This is the rider. It puts the positive stamp of approval of a Republican administration on the greatest domestic achievement of the Wilson regime. To be sure, it would be possible for any Congress after 1934 to abolish the Federal...
State universities labor under a greater handicap than endowed institutions in the present movement toward further restriction of enrolment because of the limitations imposed upon them by their governmental connections. Almost without exception they are required by charter to admit all graduates from accredited high and preparatory schools. They are dependent for reform upon legislative action...
...clipper Mediator brought $104,960 in gold sovereigns to Philadelphia, where they were recoined into $508,318.46. Five U. S. Congresses tried to define "knowledge" and how best to "increase" and "diffuse" it. John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush were among those who contributed the basic ideas of a charter that was finally adopted (1846), making the Smithsonian Institution a private affair under the guardianship of the Federal Government. The President, Vice President, Chief Justice and members of the Cabinet were made the Smithsonian "establishment." Three Senators, three Representatives and six citizens at large constituted, with the Vice President...
...board of regents consulted leading contemporary scientists-Faraday, Bache, Silliman -;who unanimously averred that Joseph Henry, natural historian and physicist at Princeton, was "without a peer in American science." Joseph Henry relinquished his private researches and gave 32 years, as the Institution's first secretary, to making its charter into a reality...