Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dominant influence for years. Denver also showed discrimination in voting for bond issues-it rejected a new art museum, a concert hall, a plan to expand the zoo, but approved improvement and expansion of its airport, its water system, its general hospital. It shrewdly made sure that its city charter, basis of Old Ben's power, would be revised...
Speaking Labor's language had become an approved major tenet of Tory doctrine. The Conservatives had a new statement of party policy to talk about. Their platform was a pamphlet called The Industrial Charter. It was 38 close-printed pages, some major sections of which closely resembled some of the political philosophies expounded in Keep Left, the recent pamphlet of Richard Crossman, ambitious leader of Labor radicals in the House of Commons...
Different & Diffident. The language of The Industrial Charter was mostly the work of 42-year-old David McAdam Eccles, a smooth-mannered M.P. for Chippenham, an up-comer among "progressive" Conservatives. Like Grossman, Eccles is Oxford-bred. By this week some Laborites were calling him "Colonel Blimp's Dick Crossman." The Tory and Laborite pamphlets were more remarkable for their similarities than for their differences. They agreed, in the main, that Britain's economy should be run according to Government plan; both cried the need of one powerful Minister...
...believe the University has by approving a charter for HYD performed a significant action in upholding academic freedom. Sydney V. James '50. Secretary...
...Crow district court last week Texas officials made a show of claiming that they had provided "equal facilities" for Negroes by setting up a "law school" (with a charter but no students) in an Austin basement. But the state concentrated on defending segregation as such. Texas Dean B.F. Pittenger argued: "The attitude of Texans being what it is, the effect of abandoning segregation . . . would set back public education in Texas." Rather than let children mingle with Negroes, he said, white parents would send them to private schools...