Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms prescribed. But no sooner had the City had its chuckle over Messrs. Mullens & Co.'s studied statement, than the treasurer of the City of Glasgow let the cat out of the Old Lady's bag. He published a juicy account of his unavailing efforts to obtain the Bank of England's approval of a big Glasgow refunding issue...
...that some banks have made bad or illiquetiable loans to their own officers. The public's feeling is that if such bad or illiquetiable loans have been made to an ordinary citizen, he would have 'gotten the works' long ago, been sold out or required to obtain additional endorsement or collateralization which would have made his loan legitimately renewable...
...quarreled with his family, three of whom got him committed to Bloomingdale Hospital in 1897. He escaped to Virginia, had himself declared sane by the courts of that state and of North Carolina. It took Chaloner (he had adopted the old form of the family name) 22 years to obtain legal sanity and control of his $1,500,000 estate in New York. When Brother Bob settled $200,000 on beauteous Soprano Lina Cavalieri who had divorced him, Brother John leaped onto every front page with his famed telegram: WHO'S LOONY...
With 30 signatures of date on the petition for a course in meteorology and climatology next year, students backing the move hope to obtain enough additional signatures by tomorrow to force the success of the plea when it is presented to University Hall next week. For three years the course has been listed as "to be omitted next year." Members of the Class of 1936 wanting the course on next year's curriculum, hope to overcome the objection of the University that three are insufficient applicants to warrant a course...
...wants to obtain scholastic credit for his work, he may enroll for the sefen-weeks program of the Institute of Public Affairs. "The New Deal After Two Years," any time between June 10 and September 10, and cover approximately the same ground...