Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor-Management Conference was a flop. Delegates conceded this week that they would do well to reach as much agreement as the pallid platitudes of last spring's management-labor charter (TIME, April 9), which has not altered the battle lines by an inch. President Truman's observers reported back to the White House that he had misplaced his hopes in banking on the conference to settle anything; he might as well abandon them...
...United Nations Charter, which reaffirms "faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men & women of the nations large & small . . . without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion...
...Atlantic Charter, which assures "all men" that they "may live out their lives in freedom...
Said ex-son-in-law Drew Pearson, in his Sunday night broadcast: "The British have organized a society for protection against mothers-in-law, but what we really need in this country is an organization for protection against ex-mothers-in-law. I would like to be a charter member." Said Winchell, on his program two hours later: "Very special bulletin! The craziest woman in Washington, D.C. is not yet confined at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the insane. She is, however, expected any edition...
...Five, and a majority (24) of UNO's 46 other members, had to ratify the San Francisco Charter to put it into effect. Two hours before the ceremony in Washington, Russia officially said yes. She was the last of the Big Five, the 29th UNO member to sign...