Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clerk," said M. Poinaré. "Remember that in his day Antoine Monis was among the great lawyers of France, that is to say of all the world. . . . "Messieurs. For the honor of France we must rescue Antoine Monis from destitution. The Government lays before you a bill to grant him an annual pension of 24,000 francs ($960) for the few years that he has yet to live. . . ." On such a bill the Chamber could vote only...
This they did to protest a bill now before Parliament which would grant to a British firm monopoly for 60 years of Athenian taxicab and bus business. Should the bill pass, nearly all the taxicabs and busses now running in Athens would have to be scrapped or shipped elsewhere, for 75% are of U. S. manufacture, with Italian and French makes next, and British firms scarcely represented...
...Manhattan attorney. But last week the Rutgers Alumni Monthly robbed Mr. Brett of his glory. Legend was wrong, said the Monthly, in a few particulars. Mr. Brett did not break his leg. Mr. Brett said nothing about dying for dear old Rutgers. It was the late Frank Kingsley Grant, '95, whose leg was broken in the Princeton game of 1891.* Mr. Grant was stoical. Calling for a cigaret before they carried him from the field, he simply said: "I'd die to win this game...
...Gould (1836-92), James Fisk (1834-72) and Daniel Drew (1797-1879) were forcing from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) control of the Erie, and where Commodore Vanderbilt himself was forcing his way to the control of the New York Central. When the Fisk-Gould machinations around President Grant brought on the "Black Friday" panic of 1869, Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb had money. They loaned it out, and their firm has continued to loan out money. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. on its own account and in combination with other banking houses has loaned $10,000,000,000 during 60 years...
Horace, a lifelong Republican, was nominated for President of the United States in 1872 by the Democrats. On Oct. 30 of that year Mrs. Greeley died. On Nov. 5 Ulysses S. Grant "won 286 electoral votes to Greeley's 66. On Nov. 7, the Tribune announced: "The undersigned resumes the editorship of the Tribune, which he relinquished on embarking on another line of business six months ago. Henceforth it shall be his endeavor to make this a thoroughly independent journal, treating all parties and political movements with judicial fairness and candor, but counting the favor and deprecating the wrath...