Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class presidents. They spend their summers living abroad in native homes, attending government conferences. Each year the School has five "confer-ences on public affairs" of its own. From outside come topnotch authorities to inform and argue. Then students pretend they are a Senate committee, a New York City charter commission, a League of Nations assembly, proceed to thrash out the question at hand with all due form & ceremony. At this year's final conference last month the School was the U. S. House Ways & Means Committee, .considering the reciprocal tariff bill (see p. 13). Preparatory experts were chairman...
Soviet-owned was the Vazlaz Vorovsky, but she was under charter by a British shipper when she called at the U. S. with cargo from Antwerp...
...schoolmen & marms belong to a local guild called the Cleveland Federation of Teachers. Few months ago some of them decided it was time to join up with a national movement toward making life pleasanter for pedagogs. Last February they swallowed their professional pride, took out charter No. 279 in the American Federation of Teachers, affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. Last week with 1,200 members the local felt strong enough to beard Cleveland's Board of Education with a petition. That brought up the question of whether the Board should recognize the union. With three "ayes," three...
...Board, however, did begin a careful survey of the union status (company or A. F. of L.) of thousands of automobile workers to determine accurately the question of representational apportionment in individual motor plants. In disgust, Fisher Body employes in St. Louis chucked their A. F. of L. charter, decided to "go it alone." And some observers sensed in the Labor Board's refusal to be stampeded by A. F. of L. pressure a perceptible cooling of the Administration toward the organization, too. In Camden, N. J., two great strike meetings were held...
With four victories and one defeat behind them, the Freshman baseball nine will meet St. Mark's at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Southborough. This will be the first game for the St. Mark's team. The Freshmen defeated Drew University 7-0, Penn Charter School 9-6, Gilman School 11-2, and Milton 16-6; they met defeat at the hands of Thayer Academy...