Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then a sudden switch was made in Senate signals. For Senate action this week, the Bretton Woods monetary plan and international bank was put ahead of the World Charter. Administration leaders hoped it would be approved before the week was out. Then, they hoped, would come quick action on the Charter. Last week it passed its first Senate examination -by the Foreign Relations Committee...
...national organizations, leaders of church, education and women's groups, leaders of the vanishing fringe of die-hard nationalists, many a listening Congressman, many a service man. They heard no rousing debates, no sharp claps of oratorical thunder. They heard very little that was substantial said against the Charter...
...Francisco was finished. The hefty Minnesotan called on President Truman, reported that he was ready to return to duty as Commander Stassen, U.S.N.R. But for one night last week he was still Citizen Stassen, with a message for other U.S. citizens about the World Security charter. His audience was vast-the NBC network...
Minnesota's Stassen had specific criticisms of the charter's weaknesses, but he insisted that there was room in it for corrections. He also had specific recommendations for making the charter work, for developing "an intelligent, informed, American viewpoint" on major world problems. He urged that the President appoint bipartisan groups to study policy issues...
...Ratification ol the charter, and broad powers for the U.S. representative in the world organization...