Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assurance of Senate ratification of the new world charter (see below). ¶An informal vote of confidence from the U.S. public: the Gallup poll reported that 87% of U.S. citizens approve the way he has handled his job. (President Roosevelt's wartime high: 84%, right after Pearl Harbor.) ¶An important Cabinet shift...
They wasted no time. Day after their return, Tom Connally rose to present the San Francisco charter to his colleagues...
...Today a charter is being signed which when ratified will bring into being a world organization. It is much that 50 nations were able to agree on any charter. I can, however, report more than mere agreement. The charter agreed upon is one which fulfills our hopes even beyond our expectations. . . . [We sought] that these [Dumbarton Oaks] proposals should be modified in important respects. That has been done. The charter which emerges from San Francisco is a totally different instrument from the draft of Dumbarton Oaks...
...Therefore, at San Francisco, the emphasis was shifted. The charter was substantially rewritten to make the organization one which would promote justice and human welfare. There was a tremendous development of what our Commission has referred to as curative and creative processes. The result will be an organization which is subjected to principles of justice and of international law and which is designed to recommend the change of any conditions which might impair those principles or the general welfare or friendly relations among nations. It will be an organization which is dedicated to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms without...
...which the Big Powers presented. The San Francisco conference performed a great task of creation. It gave birth to an instrument which can be a Magna Carta for the world. ... I can see no reasonable ground for Christian people now to hesitate in their support of the San Francisco charter...