Word: carta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent issue, "Time" treated the Report on Some Problems of Personnel of the "Committee of Eight" as a kind of academic Magna Carta. It seems likely, however, that those close to the situation must infer from the objective significance of President Conant's acceptance of the Report "in principle" as announced in his open letter of May 32 to the Board of Overseers...
Most spectacular case before the overworked National Labor Relations Board at the moment is Ford Motor Co., charged with violating Labor's Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Filed after the "Battle of the Overpass" when Richard Frankensteen and other United Automobile Workers were set upon and beaten up as they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel...
...days after the Cavaliers received their 65-0 defeat at the hands of Harvard the undergraduate paper at the University of Virginia brought out the Magna Carta of Professional Football reprinted else-where on this page. Coming immediately after Virginia's humiliation by a team whose foremost virtue has always been its emphasis upon amateurism, the editorial appears to be totally lacking in sincerity...
Sweeping down with more fury than the Assyrian, Colonel Apted has led his band of Yard police to a stirring triumph over the college bicyclers. Today Harvard is reviving the Magna Carta of Cambridge pedestrians, the Lowell law against bicycling in the Yard, and henceforth the hateful two-wheeler is banished from the highways and byways. No longer need walkers and truckers, freshmen and presidents, stand petrified with fright while the whirling dervish streaks by streaming dust and dirt on all who watch it pass. Nightmares and dreams of sudden death are over, and all's quiet along the Charles...
...Henry III and Magna Carta," Professor McIlwain, Harvard...