Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earlier in the meeting, Weeks presented William Rusher 3L, President of the HYRC, with an official club charter drawn up by the Massachusetts Republican Committee...
With a core of 25 charter members, the Security committee states, "A strong America is necessary to secure a lasting peace and to the preservation of our democratic ideals...
There were other items on the agenda: a new hemispheric charter, the colonies question, a joint military staff committee. But now that economic debate was knocked in the head, it began to look as though the conference could handle them all in much less time than originally planned. At week's end, some of the delegates were even talking about getting up to New York for the U.N. General Assembly's Palestine session on April 16; the more conservative guessed they would adjourn...
...smudged lexicon of economic diplomacy, "freer" meant less free, not more free. The term indicated that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade Organization, a project which, in the somewhat startling words of Sir Stafford Cripps, "had never before been attempted except at the tower of Babel." At Havana, where the nations convened last November to mold the Geneva draft into final shape, Babel's spirit still prevailed...
...jute for the more highly industrialized nations. The delegates of these "backward" nations pointed out that it was only the protective tariff which had made 19th Century America so rich that it could afford to oppose protection. Argentina's Diego Luis Molinari (who refused to sign the charter) denounced I.T.O. as a U.S. plot, and as "an international spiderweb of Shylocks squeezing the heart of hungry multitudes...