Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Father Svensson's German provincial returned from a trip to Japan, asked the Icelander if he would not enjoy a similar jaunt. Permission was granted by the General of the Order in Rome, providing Father Svensson would write a book about his trip, obtain a reputable doctor's assurance that his health was perfect, pay his own way. Father Svensson in good shape save for a touch of rheumatism in one leg, raised money for his trip by lecturing in France, Switzerland, Germany, set out for Japan via the U. S. and Canada...
...utility counsel who came primed, after nearly a year of preparation, to convince Judge Mack that the Public Utility Act was unconstitutional, or at least to obtain a ruling on that point in order to appeal it, SEC's smart Attorney Robert Houghwout Jackson immediately opened a tricky gambit. He suggested that since Electric Bond & Share had never registered with SEC as the Utility Act required, the point at issue was not the constitutionality of the Act as a whole but that of its registration provisions. Electric Bond & Share, argued Attorney Jackson, was on an illegal spot. It could...
...sufficient mentality to make a will", and that "undue influence upon her was exercised by persons or person unknown". Although the wielder of this influence was already spoken of as "unknown", the will-breakers were specific in exonnerating the President and Fellows of any attempt to obtain from the dying Mrs. Nieman the totally unexpected and apparently illogical gift of almost her entire $5,000,000 estate to Harvard, an institution without a single course in journalism...
...believing that there are many boys who would not otherwise obtain a college education who might be able to do so by means of their abilities as football players, and that such men should be allowed to work their way through college by playing football, just as a man earns his way by grading papers or instructing in a laboratory...
...interested in traveling to Yale in this fashion may obtain prices and make reservations by calling the Harvard Club of Boston at KENmore...