Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebration will end on September 18, the day on which the General Court of Massachusetts convened in 1636. It was in that session of the court that the charter was granted...
...scheme of harnessing the tides for electrical production was conceived several years ago, and a charter granted for an experimental development at Eastport. Perhaps the plans were practical, perhaps not. At any rate they were presented to the appropriate government agency early in the New Deal, and firmly rejected. The reasons: (1) There is already an oversupply of electrical energy in Maine (2) the cost of construction would be greater than any possible economic benefit. This was done of a sort, but apparently not ultimate truth. In 1934, just before the Congressional elections the scheme was re-embodied and vitalized...
Just as the 55th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor was drawing to a close in Atlantic City last week, Vice President John Llewellyn Lewis rose to press the rubber workers' plea for an industrial union charter. Also to his feet sprang William L. Hutcheson, A. F. of L. vice president and head of the carpenters' union, to raise a point of order on the ground that the convention had already agreed to deny such charters. "Is the delegate impugning my motives?" thundered the beefy, bull-necked leader of 400,000 United Mine Workers. Belligerently...
Application for a charter from the American Federation of Teachers to set up a local chapter of this organization has been made by a group of 30 younger members of the Economics, Government, Sociology, and Philosophy Departments...
...pussyfooted for 15 long years. They let Poland conquer a good third of Lithuania and seize its then capital Vilna, which Poland still holds. They let Japan master four rich Chinese provinces. No sanctions were imposed to stop bloodshed between Bolivia and Paraguay. Though the League's own charter or Covenant is part of the Treaty of Versailles, the League played dead when Adolf Hitler violated the Treaty's military clauses (TIME, March 25), played deader when Britain and Germany united in tearing up its naval clauses (TIME, June 24). But last week, the Mediterranean having been filled...