Word: charta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manchester Boddy of the Los Angeles Daily News gazes at no crystal and reads no stars. But when the National Recovery Act went into effect in 1933, Boddy wrote: "It will eventually be thrown out." When the Wagner Act was passed, he said: "Labor regards [it] as a Magna Charta, whereas it will prove to be merely a license for a nationwide fight for union leadership." Months before it happened, Boddy foresaw the German-Russian alliance. Last September he was on the button again. Wrote Boddy in his daily Views of the News column: " . .. Another great movement will...
...friends to a durbar to celebrate. They found the Maharaja held virtually incommunicado by his ministers. Hundreds of village chieftains waited patiently for him. So did huge ceremonial elephants, with painted toenails and hats like those of Dumbo's mother. When the Maharaja finally showed up, his Magna Charta looked greatly altered. His ministers looked smug...
...Magna's Charta...
...year pact which King of Kings Haile Selassie signed with the Brit ish Government bore little resemblance to Magna Charta. In return for $10,000,000 in cash, the Lion of Judah handed . the British a blank check. According to the agreement, British judges and assessors will sit on the benches of Ethiopian courts, the Ethiopian police force will be officered by Britons...
Mexico's Padilla, whose early speech on "the free American" (TIME, Jan. 26) expressed the optimum hopes of the Conference, drew cheers again when he said: "This is not the time to defend material riches; this is the time and hour of sacrifice. . . . Let us sign the Magna Charta of united America in the midst of the gravest hour ever struck for magna chartas...