Word: charter
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Philadelphia. In 1956 Hoffa helped 18-arrests Racketeer Samuel ("Shorty") Feldman get a Philadelphia charter, Local 410, in the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union. By the time the union revoked the charter the next year. Local 410 had been thoroughly looted: though it had taken in about $20,000 during its short life, its assets totaled $450, its liabilities some $22,000. In gratitude for the opportunity for plunder, Feldman helped work out an alliance between Hoffa and Philadelphia Teamster Raymond Cohen, whose Local 107 had 19 officers with criminal records totaling 104 arrests and 40 convictions. Cohen stands accused...
From their vantage point inside the Citizen's city room, Franken and Grove expanded this charter into a broadside attack on the faults of the Columbus press, peppering not only the Citizen but its bigger rival, the Dispatch (circ. 185,437): "We believe the Columbus Dispatch has been grossly unfair and inaccurate in its reporting...
Behind the National Geographic's familiar, fussy, yellow-bordered cover-essentially unchanged since 1910-lies a publishing success formula as improbable as the society that conceived it. The charter members met in Washington one January night in 1888 determined to promote "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge." At first their magazine was filled with minutes of meetings and obscure scientific tracts. But when an inventor named Alexander Graham Bell took over as the society's president in 1898, he decided that it needed a full-time editor and a broader appeal. A year later he found...
...sheet empire-13 textile mills in the Carolinas alone-Charles A. Cannon, 66, also owns the North Carolina city of Kannapolis (pop. 30,000). His father founded it in 1906 and gave it its name, a loose derivative of his own. Kannapolis has no mayor, city manager, city council, charter or legal existence. As president of the Cannon Mills Co., vested proprietor of Kannapolis, Charles Cannon presides over trash collection, fire fighting and street maintenance, collects rent from 1,700 homes, subsidizes the police department and owns most municipal real estate, including the downtown business district. He also employs...
...adventure as much as for profit. But he got into flying by accident. After college he started an orchestra, took up flying only so that he could transport his band from place to place more conveniently. In 1929 he gave up the band and went into the charter-flying business in his home town, Winona, Minn...