Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marshall Field shoppers recognized William Burnell Towsley as the genial first-floor manager of the Wabash building where he directs customers to leather goods, stationery and jewelry. Founder Towsley is one of the Choral Society's seven charter members. With him from the start have been four other bassos: Charles Hanneman,a salesman in the "Store for Men" Edward Katschke in the candy stock room; Monroe A. Munson, retired this year from the rug department ; Howard E. Snyder, too old now for the shipping room. Two charter sopranos have kept pace with the oldtime bassos. Sarah J. Grimes still...
...before it was completed. In 581 pages Mrs. Older pours out her wholehearted admiration for her husband's old boss. In a different vein, fortnight ago appeared Imperial Hearst: A Social Biography,† by Ferdinand Lundberg, onetime Chicago reporter and New York Herald Tribune Wall Street man. A charter member of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union with which Mr. Hearst is perpetually at war, Biographer Lundberg entrenches himself on the economic Left and muckrakes his subject with pious zeal...
...Star to an asylum. Captain Nazro cleverly remembers that when Star was washed ashore a photograph album was rescued also, containing portraits of her kin. He writes to them. They appear. Kindly folk, they take Star to live with them in Boston. When she pines for Captain January, they charter a small yacht on which he is captain, Nazro first mate and the tap-dancing villager, the crew...
...scare investors silly, then offer to refinance their holdings at reduced interest rates. Premier Aberhart's second maneuver was to introduce this week a bill giving Alberta cities the same right to refinance their indebtedness; his third a resolution to apply to the Dominion for a charter for the Province's own bank...
...University of California resentment against compulsory R. 0. T. C. bubbled up embarrassingly while the University was solemnly holding its annual Charter Day Exercises on the Berkeley campus. Armed with a plebiscite in which 70% of the students voted for voluntary rather than compulsory R. O. T. C. drill, an undergraduate delegation marched before the Board of Regents to debate the point. Twenty minutes after the hearing closed the Board issued a neatly typed announcement that its hands were tied by the terms of the University trust, that in any case compulsory R. O. T. C. training was "a sound...