Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "We have welcomed our Soviet ally . . . as a great power second to none. . . . [But] we will not and we cannot stand aloof if force or the threat of force is used contrary to the purposes and principles of the Atlantic Charter...
...share the melancholy pessimism heard in some quarters." Some phases of the London record, of course, were disappointing: "I confess that in this first meeting of the United Nations I missed the uplifting and sustaining zeal for a great, crusading, moral cause which seemed to imbue the earlier Charter sessions at San Francisco." He had sensed "a tendency to relapse into power politics ... to use the United Nations as a self-serving tribune rather than as a tribunal...
...British Governments had both shown uncertainty about what Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin whispered to each other by the Black Sea. That Secretary of State Byrnes (himself a charter member of the Knights) did not know of the Yalta deal on China was an invitation to everybody in need of an alibi to blame it on Yalta...
Some town sports got an idea: charter a train for the 32-mile ride to Swift Current. Archie Simmie, station master and café keeper, asked the Moose Jaw C.P.R. office, got word back that for a flat round-trip fare of $2.05, a $200 guarantee, a train would run. By telephone the news was spread; the guarantee became a cinch...
...XIII's encyclical, Rerum Novarum, 1891, is often cited now by U.S. labor leaders as part of labor's charter of rights. -Each cardinal is nominal pastor of one of Rome's 70 oldest churches, a tradition dating back to the early Church, in which the cardinals were simply the parish priests of Rome...