Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spade of history last week turned up a hitherto secret set of facts. For biographers of Internationalist Franklin Roosevelt, the great salesman of the United Nations Organization idea, the facts were somewhat awkward. They showed that when he co-authored the Atlantic Charter with Winston Churchill in August 1941, Franklin Roosevelt...
These facts, set down in official memoranda by former Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (who was at the Atlantic Charter meeting), were introduced last week into the records of the Pearl Harbor investigation. They were of little value to Republicans, who had hoped to unearth some evidence that the late President had sought a way to wangle the U.S. into war. Cracked one Senator: "About the only thing this investigation has shown is how isolationist Franklin Roosevelt really...
Last week Beaver girls, past & present, gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the school's charter and to learn whether there would be a 26th. There would be. Working like their namesakes, loyal Beavers had saved their school by raising $105,000 in three weeks...
...American negotiators agreed to do as much as they could to break down bilateralism and expand world markets. The proposals for an International Trade Organization (ITO) which the State Department's shrewd Will Clayton drafted months ago got full British support "on all important points." This global trade charter, sent last week to other nations for study, outlined plans to revise or abolish such trade restrictions as import quotas, export subsidies, tariff preferences, cartels and dumping schemes...
Likewise, outgoing President Ira Mosher, who had once snorted at the very thought of getting together with labor on a labor-management charter (TIME, April 9), now took a more sympathetic view of President Truman's suggestion for fact-finding boards in strikes. He approved the plan in general, but whittled down its scope by restricting it to disputes "vitally affecting public health and safety," separate boards for each case...