Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candid camera pictures of California's Charter Day, taken exclusively for TIME by Peter Stackpole...
...Roosevelt's White House press conference last week, newswomen baited their hooks with a spicy morsel from Berkeley, Calif. There, one Martha Ijams, a spinster alumna of the University of California, had refused to carry on as hostess of a Charter Day alumni banquet because Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was No. i Charter Day speaker.*"I do not believe," Miss Ijams had sniffed, "that the world is so barren of persons warranting recognition that it should be necessary for the university to delve into politics to find someone worthy to receive the honor of being chosen Charter...
...Miss Ijams' behavior alone will Californians remember the university's 63rd Charter Day. Before Robert Gordon Sproul became president, the University of California never had a Charter Day speaker more liberal than Nicholas Murray Butler or David Starr Jordan. Walter Lippmann two years ago was a starter. But Pundit Lippmann had no such enemies on the West Coast as "Madam Queen" has among the San Francisco businessmen. Because she declined to use her department to weed out and deport alleged Reds, many a San Franciscan still believes that the Secretary of Labor was somehow morally responsible for last...
California holds its Charter Day exercises in a handsome open Greek Theater on the first slope of the hills which rise from San Francisco Bay. Early one morning last fortnight workmen groomed the Theater for an overflow crowd. At the foot of the slope, swishing academic gowns trailed an odor of mothballs through Faculty Glade. Class banners clustered about the base of the 300-ft. white granite Campanile. Well in time for the 10 o'clock procession, Herbert Hoover, who had driven up alone from Palo Alto, arrived with his gown over his arm. To friends he confided...
Research Associates Inc. expects to develop inventions, discoveries and patents of its own members, and by applying these to the betterment of the public weal to encourage further help from outsiders. The charter states that no profit may accrue to any member...