Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union superboss. On paper his Confédération Générale du Travail (General Labor Confédération) "represents without political leanings all workers aware of the struggle to make final the distinction between the employer and his employes," to quote its grandiose Charter. Strictly speaking, "Papa" Jouhaux had been supposed to represent the great bulk of employes in French large-scale industry. Soon after the new Cabinet took office fortnight ago he met French employers' representatives at a conference presided over by nervous Premier Blum, signed a pact promising...
...meet next month and adopt a new Soviet Constitution (TIME, June 15). Abruptly this date was postponed to Nov. 25 and citizens throughout vast Russia were invited to send suggestions for improving the Constitution's draft text. As it stood temporarily last week, Russia's proposed new charter aimed to correct such abuses as the Soviet's present suppression of free speech and freedom of the press, spying upon citizens' mail and failure to provide either universal suffrage or secrecy of the ballot. Chairman of the Soviet committee which roughed out the tentative Constitution is Joseph...
...association ever formed on a fairway, the Guild was born when Baritones Tibbett and Frank Chapman, Gladys Swarthout's husband, went to Englewood, N. J. for a golfing holiday in 1933, spent their time talking musical politics and economy instead. Formally launched last April, the Guild has 115 charter members whose names, accustomed to appear in electric lights, include: Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Mischa Elman, Lucrezia Bori, George Gershwin, Grace Moore, Artur Bodanzky, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner, Paul Whiteman, Deems Taylor, Albert Spalding...
Much weaker was the Left's Right, headed by Louis Waldman of New York and Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport, Conn. Immediate grievances of the Right were that the Left-controlled National Executive Committee had taken away the charter of the Right-controlled New York State organization and given it to a Leftist group; that the National Executive Committee had approved the credentials of the 44 Leftist delegates from New York, leaving 44 Rightists without seats. But there was a bigger division on the question of compromising with Communist methods of violence. Said Mr. Waldman scathingly of the Left...
...Harvard chapter of the Liberty League until it was found that the leaders in the affair had intended only to satirize the whole affair and bore from within. University officials clamped down when it was realized that the affair was taking such a direction and refused to grant a charter...