Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avowed Communists, paraded past the pier with signs reading: "Students say no arms to Fascists," and "Load bread, not bullets, on the Colima." Anti-Communist labor leaders in Vancouver and Ottawa forced the meddlesome Reds to back down and withdraw their pickets. But the Colima had overrun her charter date for loading the cargo, and Chinese officials had to seek another ship to carry it. At week's end, the cargoes were still waiting at the piers in both Halifax and Vancouver...
...Exeter Feb. 28 B. U. Mar. 6 Dartmouth at Hanover Mar. 13 Yale at New Haven FRESHMAN BASKETBALL Dec. 13 Tufts at Tufts Dec. 20 B.C. at Boston Garden Jan. 10 Milton Academy Jan. 13 Holy Cross Jan. 14 Tufts Feb. 4 Tabor Academy Feb. 7 Penn Charter Feb. 11 Exeter Feb. 18 Exeter at Exeter Feb. 21 Andover Feb. 28 Brown at Providence Mar. 9 Dartmouth at Boston Garden Mar. 13 Yale at New Haven (Home games at Indoor Athletic Building.) JAYVEE BASKETBALL Dec. 12 Univ. of Conn. (away) Dec. 13 Wesleyan (tentative, away) Dec. 17 Emerson College...
...petition, directed to Cambridge congressman John F. Kennedy '40 and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, asks both to vote in favor of instructing the United States' UN delegation to request either immediate amendment of the United Nations Charter or its complete revision by a world convention...
Indian Delegate C. H. Bhabha wanted a further amendment in the draft charter of the I.T.O.-International Trade Organization-which the Havana conference hopes to complete. That charter already permits (while deploring in principle) the use of preferential tariffs. It even allows a nation to lay down flat quotas on the amount of goods that may enter that country, provided I.T.O. approves. India's Bhabha said that this was not good enough. India wanted the power to set its own quotas, with or without I.T.O. permission...
...delegation felt that rather too many escape clauses and loopholes had been written into the I.T.O. charter already. U.S. Chief Delegate Will Clayton said: ". . . The charter permits a greater measure of restrictionism than we believe wise, but we are willing to accept it if general agreement may thereby be attained...