Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilian officials who have been unable to express their views publicly, the opposition includes prominent religious and educational leaders . . . [who] feel that the partition recommended by the General Assembly does violence to the rights of small nations and the self-determination of peoples as proclaimed in the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Charter. They believe it is far more dangerous for the United Nations to attempt to enforce an unjust solution than to look for another which could be just and workable...
Despite the distractions, Congress tended to its knitting. Both Houses rushed through a 30-day extension of rent control. The Maritime Commission's authority to charter and operate ships was extended for one year. The House voted $606 million for the Army's civil functions (including a record $539 million for flood control and navigation projects) and $503 million for the State, Justice and Commerce Departments. It then endorsed the Senate's proposal to cut $2.5 billion out of Harry Truman's budget...
There was as much authority for this position in the U.N. Charter as there was for Russian abuse of the veto. But up to now it had been the Russians who widened the Charter's loopholes...
...lovely world government. The all-or-nothing group is still moaning about the "lost chance," but Elliott declared that such a full-blown super-state, if somebody had tried to enforce it, would have torn the world to tatters right there and then. The men who framed the charter were practical, he said; they knew that the basic differences between the big powers were too great for paper laws to resolve...
Died. John Keirn Brennan, 74, hit lyricist (Empty Saddles, Let the Rest of the World Go By, A Little Bit of Heaven), charter member of ASCAP; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles...