Word: charter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile he had got into trouble with the United Mine Workers. He was suspended from the national organization and his district deprived of its charter for insubordination, for refusing to comply with a request for an accounting of the Kansas district's funds, and refusing to turn over its property to the national organization. He made a fight for reinstatement two years ago and was defeated. The Committee on Appeals and Grievances ruled again against Howat's appeal on the old grounds and because he had organized a "dual" union...
...Provided that a proposed consolidation was approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, Senator Cummins' bill would permit it to be carried out, despite the law or the order of any State. Such consolidated systems, according to his plan, are also to be allowed a Federal instead of a State charter. In addition, the I. C. C. is directed to adopt "as soon as practicable" a consolidation plan for all the railroads...
...Johnson and his kindred spirits were alive today, they would undoubtedly be enrolled as charter members of the Fraternal Bananas, although such Japanist an eighteenth century might conceivably rare exception to the name. At any rate, they would certainly approve the principle and it is even within the banads of possibility that they would advocate its extension to cover such disturbers of the public mind as vaudeville sopranos and raconteurs prohibition jokes...
That the Harvard invasion of Princeton on November 10 will be accomplished by sea as well as by land, a route never before attempted by the College as a body, was hinted at last night by members of the firm of Leavitt and Pierce, which plans to charter a special Fall River boat to New York on the eve of the Princeton football game, and all it needs is the support of 300 Harvard men to make the plans final...
...society was chartered last June by the national organization which makes its headquarters at Knoxville, Tenn., after petitioning for more than a year. The 14 charter members elected officers just before the close of the college year with E. P. Nelson 5E.S. at president. The fraternity was founded in 1885 at Lehigh University to "foster a spirit of liberal culture in the Engineering Schools of America and to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honors upon their college by a high grade of scholarship as undergraduates or by other attainments as alumni...