Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year. But debate was as long-winded as ever. By eleven to ten, delegates finally chose "Organization of American States" as their hemispheric system's new name. This week, still talking, they prepared to move back to the largely undamaged Capitolio, to adopt the new organization's charter...
...twist was introduced into Radcliffe politics yesterday when the 'Cliffe Student Council voted to charter a Students for Stassen group at the Annex for seven months. Up to now, charters have been granted for one year...
...Young Republican Club at the Annex however, had been awarded a full year charter on the members' plea that theirs was not a temporary setup...
...world would be far more dangerous to the U.S. than the victory of fascism." In February 1941, he said that the danger of attack by Japan was "simply fantastic." He opposed Bretton Woods, the reciprocal trade agreement, the "Voice of America," the loan to Britain. He supported the U.N. Charter but later voted against participation in U.N. "As long as vetoes are insisted upon," he said, "there is no real will to peace. . . ." He tried to limit ERP to $4 billion, but finally voted for the $5.3 billion foreign-aid bill. He is against U.M.T., for a bigger air force...
...Philosopher J. B. Kozak, who taught at Ohio's Oberlin College in World War II. Said Kozak, obviously not speaking for his 17 purged colleagues: "We accept the direction taken by this great development [i.e., the Communist coup]." Then President Eduard Benes gave the university a new charter to replace the one that the Germans had destroyed, and made a pathetic little speech about freedom. Outside, in the public square, amplifiers relayed the catch in Benes' voice. There were more cops than citizens in the square...