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Resolved to alter the basis for this conception, Dr. Eliot declined the treasurership of a big spinning company, taught at Boston Tech and wrote to the magazines attacking U. S. educational methods.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few minutes afterwards Mrs. Galton offered her the treasurership.

From Manslaughter by Miller, Alice Duer

The secretaryship and treasurership shouldn't change any more often than necessary.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association

The fact that he attained the city treasurership shows that he had already gone far, for it was the most powerful office in Philadelphia.

From The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry by Hendrick, Burton Jesse

He ceased to lecture in Oxford, and about 1222 accepted, at the invitation of Bishop Richard Poore, the treasurership of Salisbury cathedral.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various