Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having decided to form a coop, a group of people charter an association, buy at least one share of stock each to provide capital. Membership is open to all. Each member has one vote irrespective of the number of shares owned, and he may not vote by proxy. Return on his stock, which usually costs from $5 to $25 per share, is limited usually to 5% or 6%. The store sells at prevailing prices, strictly for cash. A record of each member's purchases is kept, sometimes in a little book like a bankbook carried by the member...
REFERRING TO YOUR JUNE 29 ISSUE, P 45 NEBRASKA'S GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS RECEIVED HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS AT ANNUAL UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA CHARTER DAY EXERCISES FEB. 15, 1935. HE SPOKE ON "THE INHERITANCE TAX," POINTING OUT THAT THE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IS NECESSARY IF CIVILIZATION IS TO BE PRESERVED...
Presses now turning out 15,000,000 copies of the Soviet charter, which will not be adopted until next November, were at once halted and the Constitution so amended as to give the vote to Russians aged "from 18 upwards...
...between the Mahatma, whose prestige was to ebb slowly away thereafter, and Sir Samuel Hoare, who was to give the 350,000,000 souls of India a new Constitution, the longest measure ever enacted by the Mother of Parliaments (TIME, Aug. 12). In putting through this immensely complicated charter against bitter opposition led by brilliant Winston Churchill and grim Lloyd George, the aim of sagacious Sir Samuel was to make a vast number of decisions as wisely as possible and get them fastened irrevocably upon India, rather than to mull over the Indian Question idealistically ad infinitum. Today the great...
...arrived for the ceremonies. An official quickly caught Mrs. Donnelly, led her out. John J. Appel of Teaneck, N. J. found in his bungalow a 15-lb. snapping turtle with "Alf Landon" painted on its back. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lynchburg, Va.'s city charter, the U. S. Treasury consented to issue coins bearing the likeness of Virginia Senator Carter Glass, who will thus become the second person in U. S. history so honored during life, the first so honored alone. In 1926 Calvin Coolidge shared a half dollar with George Washington to mark the sesquicentennial...