Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobs or any training. They were the 1947 version of the Okies who had fled from the Southwest's Dust Bowl. Instead of riding the highways, the Puerto Ricans rode the skies. Most of them arrived in the bucket seats of converted Army transport planes, operated by charter airlines at bargain rates. By last week, the migration from their crowded, poverty-stricken land to the U.S. was at flood tide...
...again today to answer Australia's demand to stop war in Indonesia, and Greek "aggression" charges against Albania, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. The Dutch, who, with American-made weapons, were gobbling up huge chunks of the Indonesian Republic yesterday, prevented a vote to stop hostilities by claiming that the U.N. charter "was not applicable...
Last week, on the second anniversary of the Charter,* U.N.'s record was still befogged by the optimists and the cynics. Many of the optimists had actually joined the cynics. One clear-eyed Dutchman at San Francisco had been afraid of that. The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens had warned: "The world expects too much. . . . Make this clear, lest we defeat our purpose by giving the impression that we are doing more than...
...paid most attention to the U.N. anniversary last week. Secretary Marshall called on U.S. citizens to join "in every appropriate manner" in the celebration of Charter Day. Thereupon, Marshall himself paid a 30-minute visit to Lake Success, shook hands all around, signed an agreement on U.N. rights & privileges at its future site in Manhattan. In New York City, Mayor William O'Dwyer called on the citizens to join in prayer for U.N. In the Bound Brook, NJ. area, 7,856 people signed a scroll declaring their support of the Charter...
...Charter Day itself, U.N. broadcast brief, cautious messages from leading statesmen...