Word: charter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WOULD LIKE TO BE A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE TOTALLY UNAUTHORIZED "MILTON IN SIXTY" CLUB. MEMBERSHIP OPEN...
...first U.S. experiment in metropolitan-area government was test-launched in Florida's Dade County 16 months ago, when voters okayed a single "Metro" charter for Miami (pop. 290,000) and 25 satellite municipalities (see map). Urban experts and harassed civic leaders in other states looked up from desperate struggles with their common problem-how to develop unified plans and services throughout a central city and its independent suburbs-to pray for Metro's success. Foreign specialists came to study Metro as they once studied TVA. But, with no politicians to defend it, the new idea became...
Division of Power. The original Metro charter converted Dade County's governmental machinery into a major municipal authority. It aimed at developing such city-type services as water supply, sewage disposal, zoning, housing codes, traffic planning-which demand area-wide coordination. It left to each of the 26 municipalities such functions as beat-walking police and garbage collection. Experience alone would show how some jobs, such as police detection work, could be best divided...
Commenting upon the recent granting of a Republican charter to the Harvard Eisenhower Club, Dawson said, "this proves the purpose of the Eisenhower Club is to surpass the HYRC as the voice of Republicanism at Harvard...
...granted a charter by the State Committee of the Massachusetts Republican Party last July 16 at what Dawson called "a poorly attended meeting of the State Committee in the middle of the summer, when many HYRC supporters were absent...