Word: carta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meany even conceded that the Wagner Act, which labor regards as its Magna Carta, "perhaps went too far one way just as I think the Taft-Hartley Act goes' too far the other way. I never went on strike in my life, never ordered anyone else to run a strike in my life, never had anything to do with a picket line." The audience applauded, but the spirit of comradeship lasted only a moment...
...COURTS The history of the English constitution is largely one of struggle toward an independent, qualified judiciary (in the Magna Carta, King John covenanted that "we will appoint as justices . . . only such as know the law of the realm and mean to observe it well"). The men who shaped the governments of the U.S. and its states were acutely conscious of the importance of a judiciary free to act without fear or favor toward the executive and legislative branches. In the post-revolutionary period nearly all judges-state as well as federal-were named by appointment and got life tenure...
...only a third of the students could give a satisfactory identification of the Reformation and Voltaire; only half knew much about Plato; and only four could properly identify Bismarck. Out of the 15, ten had never even heard of the Medicis, and seven knew nothing whatever about the Magna Carta...
...constant need to keep his dikes repaired against the attacks of the sea, and to fend off his many greedy enemies with unified effort, gave the Fleming a sense of community responsibility not yet shared by other Europeans. A hundred years before the signing of the Magna Carta in a tent on a British meadow, the burghers of Saint-Omer forced their feudal overlords to recognize the rights and privileges of individual citizens in that tiny Flemish town. Many other such charters were granted in Flanders during the Middle Ages and kept secure in strong boxes in town halls topped...
Boos & Bobbies. Hale, hearty and outfitted with more changes of costume than Goring, the marshal was treated to all the big architectural, historical and political sights of London. He saw the Magna Carta (without comment), Shakespeare's signature and other treasures in the British Museum, visited the Tower, had a good look at Windsor Castle, took in Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House and presented roses and gladioli to Ballerina Moira Shearer. When they were lucky enough to catch him on one of his unannounced rounds and to see past the screen of plainclothesmen, bobbies and motorcycle cops...