Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys had proved their sense for profits, their father took them into the private bank of T. (for Thomas) Mellon & Sons. When old Judge Mellon retired in 1886, Andrew succeeded him as head of the firm, continued as president after the bank took out a national charter. When in 1921 Andrew left for Washington to start serving three Presidents as Secretary of the Treasury, Brother Richard became president. Last December Death deleted three words from the Mellon brothers' famed old phrase, and to Andrew was left the choosing of the next head of the House. Last week, when...
...night last week these same five players stood under a spotlight in the middle of the same rink, while adoring home-towners cheered wildly. It was the Rangers' 400th game. These charter members had stuck together from the start, had helped win the Stanley Cup twice, had put the team into the play-offs every season, and, since last Christmas, had hoisted it from bottom to top of the National Hockey League's American division. At the end of the first period of last week's game, with the score 1-to-1, ceremonies took place. Diamond...
Chauncey has been dormitory coach since 1929 and previously coached football and baseball at the William Penn Charter school. While an undergraduate, Chauncey was catcher on the varsity baseball team, and dropkicking star for the football eleven...
...Stelzle's argument was answered by Lawson Purdy, tax expert and comptroller of rich old Trinity, which by its 200-year old charter not only possesses valuable (and taxable) business and tenement properties but also has a right to all whales washed up on the lower West shore of Manhattan Island. Mr. Purdy argued that if church property were taxed its value would at once shrink because assessment is based upon market value. The market value of St. Patrick's Cathedral would be nothing because no one could afford it. Furthermore, said Mr. Purdy, the value of such...
Neither the State Legislature in its charter nor Congress, in the Land Grant Act of 1862 by which the college was founded, specified that both sexes should be admitted. The college is distinct from Texas' State University, which is coeducational by statute. The State provides many another institution where girls may be educated...