Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rain chased each other over the San Francisco hills on the day the nations convened to write the U.N. Charter. The bandleader, who was on the sunny side, played The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise. But cynics sneered: "Another League of Nations...
...wool which, if it became law, might wreck Administration efforts at Geneva for freer world trade (TIME, June 2). Marshall and Under Secretary Will Clayton had to rush before a House committee to plead for extension of the Maritime Commission's power to operate the tankers and charter the cargo vessels which are currently keeping Europe alive. Certainly no program calling for a yearly expenditure of $5 billion had a chance in the present session...
Poland, alone, is already seeking $600 million from the bank. To determine its ability to repay it, McCloy last week sent a four-man team to Poland. He conceded that the bank's charter forbids political considerations in making loans. But Soviet-dominated Poland's politics are bound to affect the bank's decision on whether she can repay a loan. Moreover, since the bank will depend almost entirely on American investors for its new capital, it will have to persuade them of the soundness of its risks. At best, the bank in the next twelve months...
...Industrial Charter opposed Socialist nationalization in principle, but was cagily diffident when it came down to cases. It agreed that coal and the Bank of England should remain nationalized; only on iron and steel was it flatly opposed to Government ownership. On controls, the main Tory target for many months, it was surprisingly cautious: "Some controls will have to be continued until abundance overtakes scarcity...
...line Conservatives such stuff was dyed deeper than pink. But the Tory progressives had strong men in their camp. Able Richard Austen Butler, as chairman of the pamphlet-writing group, not only pulled together the suggestions of Eccles and others, but sold The Industrial Charter to Winston Churchill and the Tory "shadow cabinet." It was Butler who expounded the pamphlet's thesis at press conferences. Observers said Butler was the man who deserved most credit for the organizational side of the Tory revival...