Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sought. Tonight I have been rewarded! I have heard, for the first time (though I am an old, if not "charter" subscriber to TIME) "The March of Time." This is the perfected Radio Program, even as TIME is the perfected Newsmagazine, the indispensable weekly. . . . My unqualified felicitations...
Around the Virgin Islands prevail the old Danish tariff law (average rate: 7%,) instead of the U. S. Hawley-Smoot Act (average rate: 39%). Danish currency is likewise legal tender because the islands' bank continues to operate under its original Danish charter. The U. S. Congress appropriated $600,000 to put the black islanders back on the land, 90% of which is owned by a score of rich foreigners. Emigration to the U. S. has cut the islands' population in a decade by 15%, down...
...President Butler's Charter Day address at the University of California he quoted a young Englishman as saying that "politics unfortunately abounds in shams that must be treated reverentially by every politician who would succeed." But President Sproul, who spoke later in the day to the alumni, showed no such reverential attitude toward a particular sham menacing the higher educational standards of the State of California. This young president had the courage to describe the proposal to distribute the State's higher educational funds among at least nine institutions besides the university as "the intemperate oratory of demogogues...
Many years afterward he recounted: "She fell down on the job. I was forced to cook the first supper myself. The son literally fell down ... so the charter scholars waited on themselves...
John C. Traphagen, senior vice president of Chase National Bank, was made a trustee of Bank of New York 6 Trust Co, Under the Bank of New York & Trust Co.'s 147-year-old charter, Mr. Traphagen remains a trustee "for life or good behaviour...