Word: charter
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Minnesota--Absentee registration legal in all cities having a population of more than 50,000 inhabitants and governed under a home rule charter. Applicant may make application in writing, up to 15 days preceding election, to the commissioner of registration to have his name entered on the poll list and register of the precinct...
Exceptionally impressive, therefore, were figures made public last week by Joseph Wallace Mclntosh, Comptroller of Currency, announcing U. S. approval of a charter for yet another national bank in Manhattan's Wall Street. Initial capital and surplus of the proposed Commercial National Bank and Trust Co. will total $12,000,000. No national bank, Comptroller Mclntosh revealed, has ever started with so large an amount...
...ships were authorized for sale, none for charter. Only U. S. bidders need apply. Bids were invited for any of eight different combinations of the ships, one combination requiring the promise to construct two fast new mail ships...
Three famed vetoes of the charter of the Bank of the United States, by Presidents Madison, Jackson, Tyler. These were referred to in planks of the Democratic party...
...Silently acquiesced, when Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks stated that he had requested the abdicated onetime Crown Prince Carol of Rumania to leave England within five days, on account of the attempt which Carol allegedly made last fortnight (TIME, May 14) to charter two British air liners for a dash to Rumania, with intent to seize the Throne from his six-year-old son, King Mihai...