Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allen proposed that the legislature grant a charter to the Central Bank of Nebraska, compel all other State banks to surrender their charters and become Central Bank branches. The Central Bank would pay off the Guaranty Fund's deficit, capitalize at $20,000,000, become the sole depository for State funds...
...Chicago college was founded in 1856 with a land grant obtained by its first board chairman, famed Stephen Arnold Douglas, when he was U. S. Senator. But in 1886 it failed and died, lacking money. It was an entirely new institution that arose, six years later, out of three things: 1) Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed's desire to establish a Chicago college foundation; 2) The American Baptist Education Society's desire for a college somewhere; 3) John Davison Rockefeller's decision to found a college either in New York or Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller (always referred to since as "The Founder") gave...
...bank will be located at Basel, Switzerland; Switzerland having agreed to grant a charter which will not be repealed, amended or supplemented except in agreement with the organizing powers...
...Tailor-Made Man. Grant Mitchell returns as John Paul Bart, the socially-soaring pants-presser who. despite his outmoded slang (twelve years) is still very funny...
Uniformity. The general desire for uniform state laws found expression in several recommendations of the Association. The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform Siate Laws was ordered to draft a law, to be presented to the state legislatures, providing for a scientific treatment of criminals. The statute is to grant psychiatric service for all criminals, and before any criminal is sentenced for a felony in which the judge has any discretion as to the sentence, a psychiatrist report must be filed as part of the court record. Until such a report is filed no felon is to be released. Resolutions...