Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Growled Arthur Vandenberg, who may well sway the U.S. Senate for or against any treaty ratifying a world charter: "I . . . deeply disagree. . . ." All three Congressmen made their disgust acidly plain to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr., who had suddenly discovered spots on his shiny new world...
...Chamber of Commerce Building, in the eye-winking glare of flash bulbs, three men signed their names to what may be a historic document. The men: U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston, C.I.O. President Philip Murray and A.F. of L. President William Green. The document: a labor-management charter for industrial peace in the postwar world...
...charter was the distillation of some two years of quiet talks between the three. It was brief. It contained some obvious points: that increased prosperity can come only through technological advancement, improved productive efficiency, broader social security and an expanding foreign trade. It also provided that an "enduring peace must be secured" by the "establishment of an international security organization . . . [of the] United Nations capable of preventing aggression...
...expected that the charter would do the impossible-eliminate all strikes. But, said cautious Mr. Green, it should help substitute arbitration for conflict...
...British. Guatemala's new constitution claims Belize (British Honduras). A banner cried: "Principles of the Atlantic Charter: to live without fear, want and Belize...