Word: charter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peterson supported Thomas Stalker '58, the candidate of the Hodel-Perelman-Thompson faction in last March's bitterly contested presidential election. This election prompted charges of vote-buying from both sides and finally wound up before the Student Council and the Administration. The Council recommended suspension of the HRYC charter and attempted to seize the books of the club...
...weightlifters have previously worked out on an informal basis at the I.A.B., but now seek official approval for a club charter and a match schedule...
According to its charter, the A.R.F.'s purpose is to provide "adequate housing facilities" for "underprivileged persons." But in their hilarity, the Georgians could not help blurting out the real purpose. Drawled mustachioed Alpha A. ("Alfalfa") Fowler Jr., 37, Georgia state legislator and A.R.F. president: "What we're lookin' for is the bluegum, stinkin' scum of the earth, the niggers with common-law wives and passels of little black bastards." Back home in Georgia, an A.R.F. cofounder, pudgy, rednecked Politico Roy Harris, was equally frank. Vowed Harris, often called the "kingmaker" of Georgia politics...
...Alan Lowenstein, the high-powered group of bankers, lawyers, publishers and insurance executives started a citywide drive for reform, accepted tough, intelligent Incumbent Commissioner Leo P. Carlin as their man. With widespread city support, the reformers swept out the "five mayors" in city hall, voted in a strong-mayor charter-and Mayor Leo Carlin, who tightened budget controls, stabilized tax rates and formed committees to tackle housing, parking and property improvement...
...teens. At 27 he bought a small surplus oil tanker for use in the East Coast trade. When it blew up accidentally in 1926, Ludwig was nearly killed, his small company almost wrecked. But Ludwig recovered, raised credit to buy three more tankers, expanded his fleet further by chartering his tankers to oil and steel companies, borrowing against the charter to build or buy more tankers. He opened a shipyard in Norfolk, Va., built 18 more tankers, flourished mightily during and after World...