Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which has shaken enormous "gifts" for peasant relief out of the wealthy families of Japan, shook probably the biggest philanthropic plum in Japanese history out of the Empire's richest family, the stupendous banking, industrial and trading House of Mitsui which in normal times owns or has under charter a trading fleet as large as the entire mercantile marine of France and has been vastly rich since Poet William Shakespeare's time...
...they saw him on the 29th floor of the Lincoln Building, he would not be going to see Flynn but to rest in another friend's neighboring office. He promised to reduce the budget "by instituting real economies," abolish duplicating departments in the city government by having the charter revised, unify the subway system to provide an honest 5? fare. Explaining the formation of his independent party, he said: "I would not have served on the [Fusion] ticket because I would have had to accept the support and laid myself under obligation to Boss Koenig, whom the decent Republicans...
...went Democratic, failed to return him to Congress. He likes to mix salads, play the trombone and will fight at the drop of a hat. Making four speeches to McKee's one, he did not let his opponent's charges go long unnoticed. He, too, had pledged charter reforms and at the Harvard Club had impressed many of his conservative listeners, to whom his past radicalism was the cause of grave suspicion, with a plan to refinance the city's indebtedness at lower interest rates. He now stepped up to a microphone, radioed a paragraph-by-paragraph...
...years later, nearby Swarthmore College was founded by the Hicksite branch of the Quakers. Both colleges have remained small, progressive, Quakerish in independence but non-parochial. Less than half of Haverford's 44 professors and less than 17% of its 300 students are Quakers. In 1931 the Haverford charter was amended to admit non-Quakers to the Board of Managers. But Haverford still conducts Fifth-Day Meetings on Thursdays and last week's celebration included a quiet Sunday Friends' Meeting...
...year, Widener Library has on view this week many items of historical interest. There are the ceremonial silver keys, the gift of William G. Stearns, 1825, with which President Conant was inducted into office Monday, the seal of 1850, the great seal of 1885, and the original charter of 1650 with Governor Dudley's signature. There are also miscellaneous lawbooks with entries of the overseers from...