Word: charter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same type would be welcomed. Instead of lengthening his waiting list, Father Sill called to him his two prefects of '18, bought them another farmhouse at South Kent, five miles away, and helped them establish, not a twin, but an independent "younger brother" of his school. Twenty-four charter pupils were enrolled. Today, in its third year, this school (South Kent) has 51 boys, 7 masters and a waiting list of 100 or more boys, who will be admitted as fast as expansion can be effected. The headmaster of South Kent is Samuel Slater Bartlett, a 26-year...
Last week a lawyer scuttled into the office of Baltimore's tax commissioner a few minutes before closing hour and filed an application for a state charter to incorporate. He represented an organization wishing to call itself Ward Food Products Corporation, with ten million shares of no-par-value common stock and ten millions of preferred, which the directors reserved the right to buy in at $110. Potentially this capitalization was two billions, one of the largest in the world. The lawyer deposited a check for $40,700 in taxes and scuttled out as fast as he had come...
...Lawyers Felix T. Smith and Renato Capocelli, and W. F. Hillman, last week traveled from San Francisco to Delaware, laid down $75,100 as an incorporation tax, and came away with a new billion-and-a-half charter for the Standard Oil Co. of California. This re-formation of the California company is considered only the prelude to enormous Coast oil activities. On Feb. 26 the stockholders of the Pacific Oil Co. will meet to consider proposals on reducing that concern's capital stock of $92,000,000 to $1,750,000. The directors will also suggest a merger...
...fear and trembling. Even minor treaties are subject to arduous Senatorial scrutiny. Mrs. Lowry cites the fate of one concerning the Congo Free State. When the Senate finally ratified it, it "was so bedeviled as to its verbiage that it might have been an extract from a Delaware traction charter". Secretary of State Hay re-read it and stated that "he was going to have it parsed by a commission of grammarians and field in the archives of the department...
...Raising the standards of music sung in college glee clubs was the avowed purpose in founding the Intercollegiate Musical Corporation, with the Harvard Glee Club as a charter member," said Mr. Woodworth. "The objection raised by Harvard this year was that the prize song, chosen by the Corporation to be sung by each contesting club, is musically of a very inferior quality. Such a choice defeats the purpose of the contest...