Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Affairs' editorial board, board of trustees and list of charter members were studded with such bigwig names as James Landis, Will Clayton, Gardner Cowles, William Benton. Pardridge had dreamed of just such a board when he was an unpromising student at the University of Chicago. There he had flunked 27 courses (freshman English four times), remained a freshman three years, never did get his degree. Later he wound up on the Chicago faculty as an $1,800-a-year research assistant in geography...
...doubt that Lieut. Hawkins has carefully studied the U.N. charter, Yalta, Teheran, the history of southeastern and central Europe, sociology and economics, so that I can be certain on his word that Russia is obviously and entirely in the wrong...
...that the Labor Government had plumped for it, there was not much doubt that BBC's charter would be renewed for five years in January. Yet many Britons were far from reconciled to the dull programming and the monopoly of the state-owned radio network (TIME, July 15). Last week, they had aid and comfort from an unexpected quarter. A wartime (1938-42) director-general of BBC, one-armed Sir Frederick Ogilvie, shook his fist at his old employer in a London Picture Post article. Excerpts...
...circuit will be incomplete because Pan Am has no trans-U.S. charter...
Turning his discussion back to recent times, Salvemini declared that "the Atlantic Charter, which should have given a lead to the present peace negotiations, was a joke put together by Roosevelt and Churchill when they needed to deceive people all over the world to support the anti-German war eeffort. Now that Germany is defeated, nobody needs to take seriously the Atlantic Charter, or any other charter...