Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tramp steamer known as the Maiotis had cleared for parts unknown with Samuel Insull as its only passenger. Further investigation showed that Samuel Insull had dyed his hair and mustache black, put on nobby Athenian clothes and walked out of his hotel unnoticed. Also he had paid $10.000 to charter the steamer...
...whose great-great-grandson was to become 32nd President of the U. S. The directors picked for their first president, General Alexander Macdougall, a brisk, decisive Scotch merchant who earlier in his life had piled up a small fortune privateering. Without waiting to obtain a charter (which was not granted until seven years later), the bank soon opened for business, having duly "qualified before his Worship, the Mayor...
...States was established in 1791. Its first private competitor originated with a bright young man who had just begun to realize the possibilities of a new organization known as Tammany Society. With a fine show of public spirit, Aaron Burr promoted a water system for the city. In the charter for his Manhattan Co. he inserted a clause permitting it to engage in "moneyed transactions." A few of the people's representatives suspected a ruse but Burr talked vaguely of "trade with the Indies" and the charter was granted. Manhattan Co. promptly opened a banking business which it still...
...London postman ambled along Charter House Street, turned in at the office of The Diamond Corp. "Good morning," said he to a clerk. "Registered parcel for you. sir. A bit brisk out, sir. Just sign here, if you please, sir." He dipped into his brown canvas sack, passed out a paper package no bigger than a dornick. He touched his cap, ambled out again into Charter House Street. Because the package was addressed personally to Louis Oppenheimer, brother of The Diamond Corp.'s potent Board Chairman Sir Ernest, the clerk took it unopened to his office. Mr. Oppenheimer unwrapped...
...here, Samuel E. Morison, official Harvard historian, explained to the CRIMSON, is where the man in the street goes wrong. It was decided by historians, he says, that the college dates from the time of the first official charter or action. In a footnote to his history of the University now in preparation, he says, "Colleges of the British Isles and Latin America date their foundation from the first charter, papal bull or formal act authorizing the institution; for it is nearly impossible to ascertain the dates of breaking ground for the first building or of first receiving scholars...