Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the U. S. could not stop these occurrences, the League of Nations tried. Liberia is a charter member of the League, for it had joined the Allies one day during the War when a British warship anchored off Monrovia. The League found that Liberia, besides having no health service, had no budget, no accounts, no money, that its trouble was, as Lord Cecil put it, "the incompetence of the Government and corruption-but rather more incompetence than corruption." The League offered to send Liberia a Government adviser to set things right. President Barclay proudly declined. The League threatened...
Last week Women Investors, Inc. filed its charter in Albany. It promised to "arouse women to a realization of the stake they hold in the nation's wealth." It promised to protect and preserve industry, stocks & bonds, homes, husbands, etc. It promised to oppose "unsound" legislation. "Few people realize," it said, "that women own 70% of the wealth of this country; 80% of the insurance policies now in effect. . . . It is the women who guard the family pocketbook, and the women now have decided to guard the nation's pocketbook...
Professor Samuel E. Morison '07, Professor of History was guest of honor at the dinner, and at a meeting held afterwards, the last of the year, Conrad C. Wright '37 read a paper on "Increase Mather and the Harvard Charter." Suggestions for the undergraduate part in the Tercentenary were presented, and a temporary program to be presented next year was drawn...
...brown tweed suit marked Charter House about 38 size...
...appointment of President Harding. A staff officer of the 77th Division during the War. Col. Sherrill had been an Army engineer for nearly 24 years, could have retired in a year and a half. Cincinnati's offer was $25,000 but the city's brand new reform Charter looked far from permanent. Forfeiting his retirement pay, Col. Sherrill took the job. During the next five years, Col. Sherrill's clean, efficient management of Cincinnati s affairs became an historical example of good city government. A handsome, tactful North Carolinian, he made his decisions carefully, stuck to them...