Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Panama R.R., whose eastern terminus was called Aspinwall,* and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. which linked it to both sides of the continent, was regarded by his associates as a bold speculation for so sober-sided a financier as William Aspinwall. Promoter Aspinwall got his railroad charter from the New York Legislature but there is no record of his visiting Panama during the construction of the line. The California gold rush was a godsend to him, and until the Union Pacific was completed in 1869. Aspinwall had the coast-to-coast carrying service in his fist. In 1934 Great-Uncle...
...late "Sunny Jim" Rolph, then Mayor of San Francisco, appointed him to the city's Playground Commission. When Mayor Rolph got to be Governor in 1930 he appointed Florist Rossi to the mayoralty. Mayor Rossi survived by a narrow margin an election in 1931 in which the city charter was changed, making him a "strong mayor." Last week he needed all the power at his command...
...There is only one commercial bank, left by the Danes, and its charter has expired...
...company of 42 hoisted anchor in Gravesend, England and sailed away for Hudson Bay to open up the fur trade. On promise of receiving "two elks and two black beavers." King Charles II gave the "Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" a charter two years later for the exclusive trade of all territories watered by streams flowing into Hudson Bay. No gunshot had ever sounded there and caribou and grizzlies roamed the bleak and ragged wastes undisturbed, when Prince Rupert's little company settled down to business, taking as their motto...
...bill were stricken provisions for special Indian courts and for all other compulsory requirements. Last week when the Senate and House got around to passing the measure, the New Deal for Indians consisted of the following: 1) The right of a tribe by majority vote to obtain a Federal charter for a corporation to run tribal fishing, lumbering or other activities. 2) $10,000,000 for a revolving fund for loans to tribal organizations. 3) $250,000 a year for the expenses of tribal organizations. 4) $250,000 a year for Indian scholarships. 5) $2,000,000 for new land...