Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start things off with a bang, Publisher Gollancz gave charter members two books for the price of one as the Left Book Club's May issue. For their 2s.6d. (60?), the 5,000 initial subscribers received a timely study called France Today and the People's Front, by burly, bull-necked Maurice Thorez, secretary of the French Communist Party, and Out of the Night: A Biologist's View of the Future, by Texas University's famed Professor Hermann Joseph Muller. Five-feet-two with eyes of blue, wee Professor Muller has been experimenting in genetics...
...Bank of France is open to serious question. It is even questionable whether the average Frenchman wants to see it broken. What the discontented Frenchman really wants is to be cut into the game, and the Popular Front may be able to do that by reforming the charter to the extent that small stockholders get a voice in the Bank's management, and the Government some co-operation in its fiscal policies...
Most extensive collection of historic documents on Harvard's growth ever displayed--including the original college charter of 1650, the original College seal and insignia, and aged records of the General Court--will be on public exhibition in Widener Library from now till Commencement...
...University Archives ever shown in Harvard's history. Included in the display will be significant books relating to Harvard's founding and growth, diaries of the early presidents, records of the Board of Overseers, financial records of the 17th and 18th centuries, college insignia, keys, seals, resolutions, the original charter of 1650, the Resolve of 1707, and the first college book. Many of these records are shown only on official occasions...
...performance, that this was therefore his last chance. The next in line would claim that he had attended all the Maestro's concerts, that he could not miss the last. Speculators were offered $100 and more for a ticket. In Portland, Ore. a music-lover was ready to charter a plane, ily East for the performance. He stayed home, because no amount of money could get him a seat. Inside the Hall bedlam would have been let loose again, except for the little white-haired Maestro. He bowed gravely to his wildly-cheering audience, wheeled on his podium, rapped...