Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort to stop rum running, it is understood that Secretary Hughes made advances to Great Britain for coöperation in suppressing the traffic. The exact matter of the negotiations is not known. It is understood that Great Britain would decline to grant any extension of the three-mile limit. It is possible that Great Britain might notify the United States of ships clearing from British ports with large liquor cargoes. The suggestion that the Bahamas be placed on a liquor ration, however, is apparently not favored in the British Colonial office, as appears from statements in the House...
...President's resignation, where the undergraduates decorated the president's door step with a bomb and placed appropriate specimens from the zoological museum about his lawn was a case of student self-expression carried to a ridiculous extreme. In one southern university the faculty has found it profitable to grant a lenient leave of absence for students wishing to go "bumming" for "experience...
...board room, he fell dead. So terminated the career of one of the country's great financial leaders and railroad presidents. A descendant of Petrus Stuyvesant, a grandson of Colonel Nicholas Fish of Revolutionary War fame, the youngest son of Hamilton Fish (Secretary of State under President Grant)-Stuyvesant Fish came from the stock of pioneers and joined the generation of great railroaders. Born in New York in 1851, and graduated from Columbia 20 years later he became successively a clerk in the Illinois Central Railroad, secretary to its President, and a clerk in the banking house of Morton...
...Paris Matin, the Turkish Government has received an offer from Rear Admiral Colby Michael Chester, acting on behalf of the American-Ottoman Development Company, to build railroads, canals, cities, ports, scientific and mechanical institutions and a host of other important projects. In return the Government would be required to grant important oil concessions in Anatolia and Mosul...
...Percy Stickney Grant: " I admitted in The Religion of Main Street, published by the New York American Library Service, that I was not the author of my reply to Bishop Manning when he asked that I withdraw my unorthodox statements. The letter of reply was composed by a group of friends...