Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conservative Premier Bennett hastily got the Parliament to extend the eleven banks' charters for one year instead of ten in re turn for his promise to call a commission to study Canada's whole banking, currency and coinage system. Head of this com mission, which shuttled all over the Dominion holding public hearings last summer and autumn, was Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron of Aberfeldy (TIME. Aug. 28, Nov. 20). For ten years Lord Macmillan had been heading British com missions including the Royal Commission on Lunacy & Mental Disorder and the Home Office Committee on Street Of fences...
...content. That State has already a Norwegian college--an American center of a purely Norwegian culture. No doubt we shall have some Norwegian "fellows" at Harvard, in the new sense of the word as we already have them in the American. Well, nobody will object to them. We shall extend to them the right hand of fellowship, in every sense of the word...
...illegal for the Post Office Department to extend old airmail contracts, tide over potent contractors until the Watres Act could be passed in April 1930. 2) It was illegal to award big route extensions without competitive bidding. 3) It was illegal to permit collusion among the hand-picked operators who met at the Post Office Department in May- June 1930, agreed among themselves what routes they would and would...
...Kelly law of 1928 gave the Postmaster General authority to "extend'' mail contracts, was in no way superseded by the Watres Act. No one save Postmaster General Farley thought Mr. Brown had violated the letter or spirit of the Watres Act by his geographical extensions, for which the bill makes full provisions...
...this end each House was given its own dining room, common rooms, libraries, and squash courts, all to be under the management of the House officials and for the exclusive use of the House members. Shortly after the opening of the Houses, the masters requested the University to extend it control to the House squash courts. The H.A.A. responded and opened the courts under the same restrictions as apply to the other athletic facilities. At present the use of the courts is open to members of the University upon payment of the usual...