Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having closed its doors without losing its backers' shirts, Chicago's two-year (1933-34) $48,000,000 Century of Progress Exposition further astonished wise-acres few months ago by closing its books with a $241,000 surplus. As any profits were by terms of the charter to be divided among certain worthy institutions,* the Exposition then filed a friendly suit in Superior Court to flush out any forgotten creditors and obtain clear title to the funds...
Among early enrollers was Mrs. Calista Fowler, 106-year-old resident of the Elgin Old People's Home who has been confined to a wheel chair for almost a quarter of a century. But Mrs. Fowler and 49 other charter students, who expected their school would start this week, were last week informed that opening had been delayed until Sept. 13. That was because of the Midwest's current infantile paralysis scare...
...Guild, whose aim was frankly to protect the prestige rather than the purses of its members, signed up 400 of the elite of U. S. opera singers and concert artists, everyone from Richard Bonelli (made second vice president) to Paul Whiteman. But the Guild could not obtain a union charter, for it trespassed on the field of the Grand Opera Artists' Association of America, which had been chartered by the A. F. of L. a year before...
...week minimum wage. In the Metropolitan Opera, whose best singers are also the singers of periodic opera in Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, the G.O.A.A.A. made little headway whereas the Guild, soon after its organization, appeared able to do better. On such grounds the Guild demanded G.O.A.A.A.'s charter. Last week came a show-down before the Associated Actors & Artistes of America, the rejuvenated "one big union" of the U. S. entertainment field (TIME...
Prime mover of Chicago's Charter Jubilee Art Show is flag-waving Chauncey McCormick, longtime vice president of Chicago's Art Institute, art impresario of the Century of Progress Exposition, grandnephew of the primordial Cyrus Hall McCormick. Chauncey McCormick who made his maiden political speech (''Save America") in the summer of 1935, is much more tolerant of radicalism in art than of radicalism in politics. When Mrs. Herbert Hoover was caught in a torrential rainstorm after inspecting the Century of Progress art show, gallant Mr. McCormick shooed a traffic officer from his corner to find...