Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anniversary week, fortunately, provided a breather. At the behest of Charter Member Truman, ten ladies of the 25-year-old Tuesday Bridge Club of Independence, Mo. turned up at the White House. They had paid their own way, come by plane and car, dodged reporters constantly, and were in a high state of twitters. After a sedate lunch, they chose their rooms (two shared the Lincoln bed), brought Mrs. Truman up to date on home matters, dressed for an evening concert at Constitution Hall to hear Pianist Eugene List (see Music...
...U.S.S.R. alone made an effort to defeat Franco in Spain? Or during the '40s, while the battles of Sevastopol and Stalingrad were being fought, while the U.S.S.R. was managing to save more of the Jewish civilians left in Europe than any other major power, or perhaps while the charter of the United Nations Organization was being signed...
...sultry August day nine months ago the United States Senate was swept forward by the floodtide of international optimism to vote unqualified approval of the United Nations Charter. An Administration still vibrant with the ideals of its late President had concentrated every form of pressure and political maneuvering to coerce all but the most recalcitrant of the Senators into hearty consent. Having thus hurdled the bulwark of traditional American isolationism, international planners peered with sparkling eyes into a future of unthrobbing war drums and furled battle flags. A people eager to believe took no stock in the gloomy fore-bodings...
...Missouri and in Richmond, Va. [TIME, March 18], might very well be called a high point in understanding of the mission and responsibility of the English-speaking nations of the world; also, of a deep responsibility which a tradition carrying on from the Magna Carta to the Atlantic Charter demands. When you listened to the deep, well-known dramatic voice of "Old Winnie," you could not miss being deeply moved...
...afternoon. Instead, he rode in a black Cadillac through three miles of New York streets. His change of venue might have been a wise one, for the great question before Gromyko and his Russian colleagues did not lie in the Council room, or in the phrases of the UNO Charter, or in Iran. The streets and fields of the U.S. held the answer they sought. From where the Russians sat, the riddle was: would the U.S., over the next few decades, be able to make its policy felt in the world? Or would its power decline, frustrated by internal division...