Word: granted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During a five-hour session today the Yale corporation refused to grant the petition signed by a thousand graduates to leave the historic "fence" intact. Not a single member of the corporation favored granting the petition. The decision has caused much disappointment among the undergraduates, and some of them are decidedly indignant...
...Oregon Central Military Road Co. received a land grant for one of its roads, the building of which was accomplished "simply by driving an ox-cart over the country while two men trudged along behind with shovels on their shoulders." The grant, by an oversight, included 111,385 acres reserved to the Indians by a treaty of the same year. In 1906 the U. S. Government made partial compensation (24,000 acres) for this mistake, was last week ordered to pay cash for the rest. The Klamath Indian Reservation, potentially the richest community in the world -each brave, squaw...
Cleveland Amory, Oliver P. Bolton, Robert M. Bunker, Charles L. Burwell, William L. Calfee, Edmond LaB. Cherbonnier, Harold M. Curtiss, Jr., Frank P. Davidson, Ellsworth S. Grant, Robert L. Green, Jr., Albert J. Hanlon, Jr., Francis A. Harding, Jr., J. Spence Harvin, Richard P. Hedblom, Hunter Hendee, Robert E. Lane, Laurence S. Levy, Robert E. L. Strider, Richard H. Sullivan, James Tobin, and Paul R. Wentworth...
...courts, Leverett triumphed over Dunster 5 2, as Grant, Davis, Kahn, Day, and Mills won. The Goldcoasters blanked Winthrop...
...suggestion of wage cuts, the conference took up the following proposals: further RFC loans to the roads, revision of rate-making procedure, regulation of water transport, elimination of Federal barge lines, passage of the Long & Short Haul Bill, Government payment of full rates for its traffic on land-grant roads. Reiterating his opposition to a subsidy and his belief that many roads should "go through the wringer," Chairman Wheeler disbanded the conference with an announcement that while it would be possible to put through emergency legislation at this session of Congress, a long-range program was out of the question...