Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of War Hurley replied that: 1) no other big line would book the Negro women; 2) the War Department had to charter the American Merchant from the U. S. Lines to provide transportation; 3) it cost the Government more to send Negro women over on a chartered ship than it cost to send white women on regular lines; 4) if any Negro wanted to go with a white group which would "welcome" her, the War Department would make the necessary arrangements...
...black figures crawled down an incline which was massed with others like themselves, crawled like ants across turf to a flower-decked platform, crawled back up and were lost among their fellows. At one end of Memorial Stadium, under the great gilded C which gleams on Berkeley's Charter Hill, the University of California was graduating its largest class. President William Wallace Campbell, 68, mechanically distributed from cabinets which were rolled up to him, 2,596 degrees.* The hot morning wore on. Finally, as he was about to present a gold medal to a professor in the mathematics department, President...
...Canada, Honolulu, Mexico, went 236 delegates to a Manhattan convention of the Association of Junior Leagues of America, socialite welfare organization. After electing officers, they ratified a proposal for establishing an International Junior League. Next autumn their committee will consider applications for admission from ladies in Europe and Asia. Charter members of foreign city leagues must be mostly natives there. The first international committee meeting will be financed...
...control of the C. & O.; next (last year) Alleghany Corp. which is a general holding company for Van Sweringen railroad interests. Last week Van Sweringen Corp. was formed, and the public invited to buy $30,000,000 worth of notes in it. Although the new company's excellent charter gives it the power to do almost anything by the phrases: "buy, sell, trade in or hold stocks and securities or other property, and to enter into such other transactions as may be from time to time determined," its domain is expected to be real estate rather than railroads...
...following comment on secondary education was written by Richard M. Gummere, headmaster of William Penn Charter School...