Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of thoughtful U.S. citizens met at Dublin, N.H. to re-examine the United Nations Charter in the atom's cosmic light. A U.S. official in London, noting that the Dublin thinkers were all internationalist from way back, commented dryly that they probably would have called for a reinforced world state, atom...
...would drastically amend or replace the U.N.O. Charter by a constitution setting up a world state with "limited but definite" powers. The chief powers: control of the atomic bomb and all other heavy weapons; the right to inspect industrial and other installations in all member countries to insure that no nation was preparing...
Pink, squat Jacques Duclos, 50, veteran of the GPU, is No. 2 Communist. Last week he blared the party's new line: "We are the champions and defenders of the middle class." Other Communist leaders: ruddy, rotund Florimond Bonte, 55, clerk's son and charter party member, is the Communist foreign affairs expert. Tall, devious Andre Marty, 59, an International Brigadier in the Spanish Civil War, is the party hellion...
...including Harvard's James Bryant Conant) gathered to hold the annual meeting of the Association of American Universities and to help the University of North Carolina celebrate its 150th birthday. (North Carolina's party had been in progress since 1939: celebrating first the 150th anniversary of its charter grant, then of its cornerstone laying, etc.) Proud old University of Georgia says it got its charter first, but North Carolina has an undisputed claim to the event it celebrates this week: it was the first U.S. state university to open its doors...
...Stettinius wanted an organizational meeting of the Assembly in November or early December, at which special committees, as well as the permanent councils provided for in the charter, would be selected to draw up agenda for the first plenary session in the spring...