Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missouri is the nation's foremost producer of apple butter; and considering that all true . . . collectors of apple butter memorabilia genuflect to Missouri apple butter's superior flavor; I herewith extend to the latter an invitation to join the newly-formed Apple Butter Devotees of America (Missouri charter). Governor Stark is to be invited to be honorary life president of the society, which organization will take precedence over all lesser groups...
...first major effort to put its own candidates in office. Backed by Labor's Non-Partisan League, now nothing more than C. I. O.'s national political arm, the United Automobile Workers proposed to bid for control of the fourth city of the land. Detroit's charter provides for a nonpartisan primary with a run-off election. Since most of the municipal jobs are appointive the campaign hinges on the mayoralty and the nine seats on the common council, which is elected at large. The purpose of last week's primary was to narrow the field...
...good A. F. of L. standing. His Typographers are pretty C. I. O.-minded but his C. I. O. connection is purely personal. The charge against Mr. Howard last week was the deadly labor sin of having, as C. I. O. secretary, issued a C. I. O. charter to 100,000 Northwest timberworkers who deserted A. F. of L.'s Carpenters' Union. Typographer Howard replied: "The president of our union, under our constitution, is the head of the delegation to the A. F. of L. convention. The A. F. of L. has no right to say who shall...
...Institute, a non-profit corporation is forbidden by its charter to engage in propaganda or attempt to influence legislation, but it proudly claims one bias: that good propagandas are those which conform to American principles of democracy, i. e., political, economic, social, religious freedom...
...third line, the West Shore, began paralleling Vanderbilt's tracks along the west bank of the Hudson to the Port of New York. Angry clear through he decided that if the Central was to suffer from competition close to home, so was the Pennsylvania. Acquiring the "South Penn" charter, Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build a competing road 25 mi. south of the Pennsylvania's main Harrisburg-Pittsburgh line along the 46 miles shorter route surveyed half a century before. Andrew...