Word: charter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like the University of Chicago, to which John D. Rockefeller Sr. gave millions, Brown University, which educated John D. ("Phi Beta Kappa") Rockefeller Jr., had a clause in its charter requiring that its president be a Baptist. Last week the Brown Corporation abrogated this clause...
...pride of Obersalzbrunners in dramatist Hauptmann was reawakened when he was asked to become a charter member of the new department of literature in the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts?an honor of primatical magnitude...
...organized associations of alumni must now be accepted as an integral part of the college. The Vassar Associate for example, is a separate educational body, holding a charter for educational purposes granted them by the grants of the University of the State of New York. They maintain a hall of abidance with rooms for study and commence entirely managed by them, although the building is on the property and on the campus of Vassar College. bring to their sessions leaders of who add greatly to the academic . The graduate, particularly in his day, must be recognized at something to contribute...
...would like to see the time when business writes a charter of American business freedom, a bill of rights of its own, to protect itself both from government and from some of its own temptations. ... If we mean anything by liberty and equality of opportunity, we mean not only that business must be free from undue interference and oppression by the government, but also that it must be free from undue entangling alliances with the government. ... If you complain of too much government in business, I answer that the solution is twofold: put more business into government and more self...
Lumber. William Alfred Pickering of Pickering, La., and Kansas City, Mo., let a generation flick by and last week signed another Pickering company charter-for the newly created $32,000,000 Pickering Lumber Co. Thirty-two years ago he and his father William R. Pickering organized the W. R. Pickering Lumber Co. for $60,000. They prospered, took in as subsidiaries the Standard Lumber Co. and the Pickering Land and Timber Co., established 51 retail yards in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, developed timber holdings of some 350,000,000 feet of southern yellow pine and 3,500,000,000 feet...