Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nigh unto forty years. You aint got no call to be initiatin any new fangled sacieties that your elders knowed about fore they ever thought of you. But tain no bad idee at that an' I'm for it. You kin put my name down as a charter member and since you aint goin to charge no nitiatin fee I thenk mebbe one or to other old timers thats done their share of stirrin in these parts 'll come in too. Write you bout that later...
...fellows over in Marion, Ohio always was darn good organizers and sum of the best apple sauce ever made in the country came from there. If your apple butter was only half as good, it was dam good stuff, and so you kin put me clown as a charter member...
...bitter and disappointing experience to British challenger Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, the past summer has proved even more distressing to his partner in the aircraft business: bluff, sixtyish Frederick Sigrist. After building the yacht Endeavour II for his second Cup challenge, Mr. Sopwith prevailed upon Mr. Sigrist to charter his previous challenger, Endeavour I, from its new owner, Commodore H. A. Andreae of the Royal Southern Yacht Club, help him bear the expense of taking both boats to the U. S. as alternative challengers. En route, Endeavour I slipped her towline from Mr. Sigrist's motor yacht Viva...
...Chicago, Ill. Keyes, Frederick A. 17 160 6. Boston Latin Boston Kurtz, Paul B. 18 130 5.8 South Kent Philadelphia, Pa. Lo Roun, Yann 18 165 5.10 Andover Philadelphia, Pa. Lyell, Rosslyn A. 16 155 5.11 Penn Charter Philadelphia, Pa. Noone, Richard S. 17 155 5.11 Rivers Newton Pratt, Herbert G. 11 18 165 5.11 Middlesex Concord Richmond, Philip N. 17 155 5.8 Boston Latin Boston Santosuosso, John J. 18 157 5.7 Roxbury Latin Roxbury Scorgle, Donald G. 17 150 5.9 Belmont Hill Belmont Sherer, Joseph F. 18 165 5.10 Kent Smith, George W. H. Jr. 18 185 5.9 Brooks...
...Philip Randolph began organizing porters. Having been duped in the past, many of them were suspicious. Other Negroes fought the union for a price. By 1929 the union had gained A. F. of L. Federal charters, but recognition from Pullman was not forthcoming. President Randolph carried his case to the old Board of Mediation, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to a Federal Court. First success came in 1934 when the Railway Labor Act was amended, outlawing company unions, guaranteeing collective bargaining and-at the behest of President Randolph-bringing porters within the scope of the law. Membership jumped...