Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week slim little James John Walker officially ceased to be Mayor of the City of New York. Into his job with its full power of appointment and dismissal stepped Joseph Vincent McKee, president of the Board of Aldermen. Reason: Under the city charter a mayor who absents himself for more than 30 days loses his office. Mayor Walker sailed for Europe Aug. 3. If Mayor McKee were not a reliable Tammany Democrat, he could turn the Municipal government topsy-turvy before Mr. Walker returns late this month, gets back the job to which he was elected...
...well-to-do businessmen. They represented 24 different industries. Over their meeting presided Charles A. Wilson, president of the Chicago Live Stock Exchange. Their purpose : to put the Federal Government out of private business. To this end they organized the Federation of American Business, applied for an Illinois charter, hoped their movement would soon spread to other States...
...Anti-Smith Democrats of Virginia. "Unaccounted for" was $17,895 in a Washington political account. The Bishop as executor opened a special account for the estate of a woman long dead and then used it as a political depository. Another of his accounts was for a business concern whose charter had been revoked seven years before. From a political account a $528 personal note was paid...
...seven years since Pullman Co. removed cuspidors from the berth sections of its sleeping cars. But when groups of men charter whole cars (e.g. baseball teams, conventioners), cuspidors are cheerfully supplied...
...motto: Fear God! Fear Naught! Men wore blue enameled cufflinks with the same motto in their blue cuffs. Outside Albert Hall waited several swank blue motor cars with the radiator emblem Fear God! Fear Naught! The blue blood of the British ruling class was up?this was the charter mass-meeting of Commander Locker-Lampson's blue-shirted "Sentinels of Empire," founded "to peacefully fight Bolshevism and clear out the Reds...