Word: charter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bigheaded, slim girl of 20, Queen Victoria of England, signed a charter authorizing the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. to operate its 14 paddle-wheel steamers between England and the West Indies. That shipping business prospered although sometimes the new-fangled engines broke down and the captains had to hoist sails. When modern screw propellers were invented, the Royal Mail was the first to adopt the device. When there happened to be bargains in ships. Royal Mail bought them. Now its fleets, including the 500,000 tons of the White Star Line, count 2,500,000 gross tonnage, the largest...
...like TIME very much and am proud of being a charter subscriber, but why do you puff yourselves so constantly in your pages ? The place for your advertisements is in other magazines, not in your own. If I pay my money and subscribe to a periodical because I like it, I don't have to be told in every number that it is the greatest thing going...
...39th week. The original leader, Albert Weisbord, lean 26-year-old dynamo from Harvard Law School, retired in August when the American Federation of Labor granted a charter to the textile workers. The A. F. of L. has not yet come any nearer settling the strike than did Mr. Weisbord...
...Last week the Juilliard Foundation was called to account on the basis of its limited accomplishments for the first five years of its existence in proportion to its resources now known to be more than $13,000,000. It was charged with never having obtained a New York State charter, of acting nevertheless as a private corporation, of disregarding the wishes of the founder, of creating a feeling of suspicion rather than of good will on the part of the public in its educational programs, of never having given a musical entertainment as specified in the second clause...
...Thanksgiving night in 1915 William Joseph Simmons, preacher, traveling salesman and experienced promoter of fraternal orders, gathered some friends on Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., before a 'fiery cross' and administered the oath of the 'Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.' A state charter gave corporate rights to his organization. As Imperial Wizard, Simmons could hold office for life and have final authority unless opposed by two-thirds of the Imperial Kloncilium, council of supreme officers and delegates from other states. . . . Simmons met financial difficulties. The order would have languished had not new impetus...