Word: charter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maritime Board announced a $65.8 million deal with American President Lines,* to include construction of two new passenger-freighter vessels, purchase of four Mariner ships from the Maritime Administration and of two luxury liners (the President Cleveland and President Wilson) now operated by American President Lines under Government charter. The deal is the biggest single merchant ship deal since the passage of the Merchant Marine...
...Cambodia are apparently permitted to build up their armed forces for defense, with foreign help if they wish, and both may call for foreign military assistance if they think their security is threatened. They can belong to a military alliance if it is not in violation of the U.N. charter...
...speech on his wartime service as a U.S. Army liaison officer with the Chinese Nationalists. Both were popular; Wong served for a year as president of the Stockton Exchange Club. But when national headquarters in Toledo heard about Ting and Wong, it demanded their expulsion. Reason: Exchange's charter limits membership to "male, white business and professional...
Furious about the demand from Toledo, Menlo Park voted 30 to 1 to give up its charter. Stockton, which voted 31 to 2 to defy the order, was suspended. The members of both chapters were invited to join the Lions, Rotary and other service clubs. Last week San Francisco's Golden Gate Exchange Club, the largest in California, which has only white members, decided to quit the national organization and to plan a regional revolt at a meeting this week of delegates from other California chapters. Said Golden Gate's President Mark Nusbaum: "Racial discrimination is un-American...
...veto-less General Assembly, the situation is more complex. The U.N. Charter requires a two-thirds vote for passage of "important questions." Said Dulles: "Anybody that does not think this is an important matter is exercising a curious judgment...