Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Howard Kline, 62, one-time Mayor of Pittsburgh, convicted last year of official malfeasance; of apoplexy; in Pittsburgh. A florid, prognathous man with a taste for flashy clothes, he was the only Pittsburgh mayor to serve two successive terms under the city's present charter (which dates from...
...abroad, with others from the federal and state governments. Forming in front of Phillips Brooks House the procession marched to the platform erected in front of University Hall, where former Governor J. D. Long '57, president of the Board of Overseers, handed over to President Lowell the College charter, seal, and keys, in accordance with the ceremony traditional in the inauguration of Harvard presidents for over 200 years...
With world finances teetering topsy-turvy, directors of the Bank for International Settlements met in Basle last week, elected a new president, and by their election broke their own charter. In 1930 when the B. I. S. was set up to facilitate German Reparations payments (TIME, March 25, 1929, et seq.) it was decided that its secondary purpose was to uphold and spread the gold standard throughout the world. In its charter it was expressly provided that no central bank of a country not on the gold standard should be admitted to membership...
...Shipherd of Elyria. Ohio and Philo P. Stewart, onetime missionary, had obtained land and, in the name of Jean Frédéric Oberlin* planned an institution designed for "the diffusion of useful science, sound morality, and pure religion." Oberlin College opened in December, 1833, received its charter in 1834, first U. S. college to grant degrees to women. Meantime, Pioneer Peter Pindar Pease had built the town's first cabin, on what is now the southeast corner of Oberlin's campus...
...said that the "100% American" of yesterday "who had no modern theory of society" had been supplanted by a new sort of citizen best typified by "Mr. Franklin Roosevelt . . . and my friend Randolph Hearst." The oldtime American was content with the U. S. Constitution as "a charter of anarchism," but Mr. Hearst and Mr. Roosevelt "are both violently against the Constitution...