Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amiable paragon, strapping, soft-voiced, easy-smiling "Charlie" Taft is a 38-year-old product of his father's public career, his mother's piety, his uncle Horace's Taft School, Yale, the A. E. F. and Cincinnati's Charter movement. At Yale (Class of 1918) he was football tackle, basketball captain, Phi Beta Kappa, winner of the Francis Gordon Brown award for "good scholarship and high manhood." While his classmates were busy getting into officers' training camps, Taft enlisted as a buck private in the Army, got married before sailing for France. Returning...
...picked him as its Favorite Son for the Republican Convention of 1936. Brother Charlie, on the other hand, became a leader of the Cincinnatus Association, a group of energetic young men bent on ridding the city of its wasteful, machine-ridden government. They did, by putting over a new charter which created a city manager and proportional representation, making and keeping Cincinnati one of the best-governed cities in the land. Charlie Taft told the story two years ago in City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment.† Out of the fight he carried an abiding hatred of political spoilsmen, an abiding...
...radio manufacturers to give set owners something to listen to. B. B. C. founders in 1922 were the "wireless" firms of Marconi, Radio Communication Co., Metropolitan Vickers, British Thomson-Houston Co., General Electric and Western Electric. Four years later this private monopoly was given a ten-year royal charter, made a public institution somewhere between a Government Department and a commercial undertaking, independent in its daily doings but under the ultimate control of His Majesty's Government...
Though it gets no air advertising revenue, B. B. C. has not fared badly. On its share of license fees paid by set owners it has erected its own building, entered the publishing business with three profitable weekly papers. Last week, with its charter essentially unchanged and renewed for another ten years, B. B. C. entered its second decade, a British institution apparently as solidly established as Big Ben, whose booming it uses for a broadcast time signal...
...tomb and ventilated like a submarine. So obnoxious to many of B. B. C.'s 3,000 employes was the "Army" atmosphere of Broadcasting House (e. g., B. B. C.-ers were fired when they got divorced), that the Government stepped in and mildly recommended in renewing the charter that "the staff should be free from any control by the Corporation over their private lives." Another standing complaint against B. B. C. is the dullness of its Sunday fare. At the Government's suggestion, Sir John promised to seek "a better balance and a more attractive layout...