Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...councilmen's action was not prompted by civic piety or pride in their own handiwork. A woman had protested her sewer assessment because the ordinance authorizing it had been advertised, not in a daily newspaper as required by the city charter, but in the city's own weekly City Bulletin. Last week Ohio's Supreme Court upheld her. The ruling invalidated only the sewer ordinance, but Cincinnati's entire General Code had been enacted in 1928 and the City Solicitor foresaw other protests...
...terms of its charter the World Bank stands 100% for the gold standard. Only nations whose currency is on gold can be admitted to its Board. Once admitted a member is not expelled for going off gold, but the World Bank is the international rallying point for sound, stable money...
Brown Views-Final passage of H. R. 7233 filled brown little Camilo Osias, Philippine resident commissioner in the House, with a sense of personal triumph. Cried he: "Mr. Speaker, I rise to give thanks! When this bill becomes law, it will be a new charter in human liberty which the people have gotten heretofore only through bloodshed. . . . The provisions of the measure will be carried out in a manner which will do credit to the American people as well as to the Filipinos. . . . Patriotic Filipinos can ill begrudge the hardships that may be occasioned, knowing full well that liberty...
...Corporation met twice for the purpose of discussing Eliot's possible successor Early in February the name of President Lowell, then professor in the department of Government, was decided upon as the candidate for the office. His name was transmitted to the Board of Overseers according to the charter of the College which states that the Corporation, "procuring the presence of the Overseers of the College, and by their counsel and consent, shall have the power and are hereby authorized, at any time or times to elect a new President, Fellows or Treasurer...
...Aviation Corp. when it was formed in 1929. Friends of Banker Harriman understood that he aspired to be in aviation what his late famed father was in railroading. At the outset the Aviation Corp. structure was loose. Its subsidiaries numbered 80, included unrelated small lines, charter services, schools, factories. (The list is now about 20.) The company grew to be not the titan that United Aircraft & Transport is but an extremely potent and coherent transport system holding ten of the 23 domestic airmail contracts. However the growing pains were acute. When Avco was six months old the 1929 crash occurred...