Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep its jobless members under the influence of the union and to help them obtain relief, the U. A. W. last week prepared to charter a special local for WPA workers...
...From the beginning of its activities 25 years ago the Foundation has been guided by the objective written into its charter: 'the well-being of mankind throughout the world.' In accordance with this purpose the aim of the trustees has been to maintain the work of the Foundation on an international plane without consideration of flags or political doctrines or creeds or sects. . . . We are all of us, under whatever flag, the joint beneficiaries of the intellectual property of the race...
...evening three weeks ago, guests arrived at a "charter day dinner" held in the gymnasium of Washington's Howard University, largest Negro university in the U. S. As they arrived they were handed copies of the Alumni Journal, published by the university's General Alumni Association. Three hundred copies were distributed before police routed the distributors. On the Journal's cover was a large portrait of bald, pince-nezzed, light-skinned Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, first Negro president of the 71-year-old institution, now serving his twelfth year, and beneath it in large letters: "The Case...
...adverse vote, but it can also "jump"-that is, simply resign. This rare but not unprecedented maneuver Premier Camille Chautemps executed in Paris last week, taking full advantage of his great personal triumph in having just put through both Chamber and Senate by huge majorities his Modern Labor Charter (TIME, March...
...cost of living has now risen and is still rising in France at such a rate that wages must obviously be further raised- members of the Chamber took time out recently to raise their own pay-and the new charter adopts a variant of the system existing in Belgium, where most labor contracts provide for automatic revision of wages up or down in step with the price index...