Word: charter
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...students Dr. Nash is known also as a man with an encyclopedic memory and a sense of humor, brusque in speech, sharp in thought. His favorite expression: "It's as plain as a pikestaff, gentlemen." Liberal in politics, he is president of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, a charter member of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. He was surprised but glad to get the St. Paul's job, for he believes religion should be the centre of education and St. Paul's is one of the few prominent U. S. preparatory schools that still...
...weary rank-&-filers similarly united at Corpus Christi, Texas last month and at Stockton, Calif, two weeks ago. When the movement spread to Sacramento, President Bill Hutcheson of the A. F. of L. carpenters threatened to revoke the local carpenters' charter if they joined the new council. C. I. O. West Coast Director Harry Bridges applauded the trend, declared action for peace must come from the bottom...
Peace Without Pieces. C. I. O. started in 1935 as a rump committee of eight A. F. of L. union presidents, shortly burgeoned into a combination committee of indi viduals and association of unions apart from the Federation. But until last week it had no constitutional powers to charter, direct or assist its affiliates. One of the eight cofounders, David Dubinsky, thought C. I. O., the Congress, would re duce the chances of reunion with A. F. of L., therefore refused to enter the Congress with his International Ladies Garment Workers (TIME, Nov. 21). Many another believed the existence...
Hamtramck (pronounced Ham-tram-mick) is Detroit's tenderloin for foreign immigrants. It got its municipal charter in 1922 and is today Michigan's seventh city...
...Yale for a good long while. When at the beginning of the eighteenth century the Apleys and Aldens of New England felt that theologically Harvard was slipping into radical sloughs, they realized a perennial dream for a college in Calvinist Connecticut. The Rev. Pierpont, Class of 1681, obtained a charter, and the Rev. Pierson, Class of 1668, was chosen rector. In 1716 the "Collegiate School of Connecticut" was permanently established in New Haven, and at the suggestion of Cotton Mather, another Harvard man, it received the name of Elihu Yale, a Boston native who, like John Harvard, had made...