Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around Argentina's big marble Palacio del Congreso, Perón lined up 700 cops, then told the deputies inside to okay the Act of Chapultepec and the United Nations Charter. Grudgingly, the nationalist majority obeyed...
...Look, son Elliott took readers on a tour of the U.S.S. Augusta, at anchor in Argentia Bay, where F.D.R. and Churchill met to frame the Atlantic Charter. Excerpt: "Churchill's neck reddened, he crouched forward. 'Mr. President, England does not propose for a moment to lose its favored position among the dominions...
Determined to strike a deal with the U.S., President Juan Domingo Peron ordered his stooges in Congress to ratify the 1945 hemispheric Act of Chapultepec* and the United Nations Charter too). That made it word-eating week in Argentina...
...fight was won. Since 1933, the original Seven had grown to a Group of 28, all of whom caught the fever. But Canada had yet to produce a painter less clumsy, fresher, or more unaffectedly Canadian than Charter Members MacDonald and Harris...
...money stake for Air Affairs, Pardridge pecked out three successive letters to a list of 2,500. Eight out of every 100 came through. The 165 individuals and 44 corporations who put up $100 or more became charter members. Sixteen hundred more (including citizens of 15 foreign countries) kicked in with $5 each for a year's subscription...