Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Transcripts of the pilot's conversations with the control tower disclose, however, that the plane was "cleared for take-off," asserted officials of the air charter service in a counter-charge...
...first step, though only a half-step, was taken in 1935 when, with Roosevelt's support, several theater trade unions were able to get Congress to grant a charter to the American National Theater and Academy. This meant that ANTA had the same charter-status as the Red Cross and the Smithsonian, and like them, no federal funds. Once a year, ANTA has put on a benefit show in New York, the proceeds of which have gone to the New York Experimental Theater...
...three groups are now joined to form a united and permanent University-wide organization, to be known as the Young Progressives of Harvard. The group expects to get its charter from the University on Wednesday...
...Roosevelt is so busy about so many things that she often has good cause to be late. As chairman of U.N.'s Human Rights Commission, she had been delayed, helping to thrash out a human-rights charter for the world, combining common sense with an air of guilelessness to get agreement where no agreement seemed possible. She brought flights of oratory to earth with such innocent remarks as "I am probably the least learned person around this table, so I have thought of this article in terms of what the ordinary person would understand." In a two-hour wrangle...
...trustees, who was enthroned on a great horsehair armchair that had once belonged to Ben Franklin. Four times Ike heard his praises (and Columbia's) loudly sung; each time he tipped his gold-tasseled mortarboard to the speaker. Then Chairman Coykendall surrendered to President Eisenhower the university charter, the keys and the horsehair throne. At that instant, as if on cue, the sun smiled through the clouds...