Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worried U.N.ers most was whether it had weakened U.N. Some thought so. The Russians, whose press was hoarsely denouncing the pact as a threat to peace, were expected to raise a major row about it in the Assembly. Actually, as Australian Assembly President Herbert ("Doc") Evatt pointed out, the charter provides for regional defense pacts within U.N.'s general framework. The Atlantic pact presented the Russians with the fact of Western unity. It was hard to see how the alternative-Western weakness and division-would have strengthened U.N.'s councils...
Bonnie Prince. It was twelve years since Charley Seymour, in sonorous Latin, had accepted the keys, records, charter and great seal of the university, in the climax of a long Eli career. His great-great-grandfather Thomas Clap (from 1740 to 1766) and his great-uncle Jeremiah Day (from 1817 to 1846) were Yale presidents before him, and his father had taught the classics there. Seymour himself (Yale '08) joined the faculty in 1911 as an instructor in history...
Opponents of proportional representation have been trying to effect its repeal since passage of the revised Uniform Charter Act in 1938. That law gave reform-minded cities in the state a choice among five types of municipal government-the different charters were termed "plans." Plan E was one that provided for city council election by proportional representation; the voter marks his ballot by numbering candidates in his order of preference. Thus any bill aimed at that provision would cripple the plan and make it an unnecessary addition to the Charter Act, since plan D carries the same provisions, but without...
Francisco helping to write the U.N. charter for world peace...
Throughout the treaty, there is a determined effort to prove that the Pact is in perfect-accord with the United Nations Charter. Although the declaration that the nations of Europe and North America constitute one regional area is indeed a strained interpretation of the UN Charter, it is a necessary interpretation. The signers do not want to do away with the United Nations; they believe the UN is the source of eventual peace and prosperity, as stated in the preamble and article one of the Pact. But the UN is clearly unable to cope with the present crisis. Its Charter...