Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Harriman says the Round Table was formed by accident and mutual attraction in 1920. It was an informal company, but one that no one dreamed of trying to crash. The charter members-including Alexander Woollcott, Harold Ross, George Kaufman and Edna Ferber -had violent dislikes that kept membership low and bores off bounds...
...excellent theory, you say! But there is some reason to believe that the Young Progressives may lose their charter if they cannot find two men to advise them. Young Progressives being what they are, and McCarthy being what he is, it is not surprising that few men will jump at the chance to advise the YP's. But why should the Young Progressives themselves be denied the privileges of Harvard because they cannot find two men to give them advice that they will be perfectly free to reject! In cases of this sort, the Deans' Office, after trying to persuade...
...starts in the office of a college president. Talking to the prexy is the dean, a venerable old crock who has read the college charter and can't find anything in it about sports...
...room in Easton, Pa., Post Commander George Lacey told the sprawled Legionnaires of Brown and Lynch Post: "Fellows, there's nothing to discuss here. The national convention opposes the Hoover veterans' recommendations.* That's an edict. If we don't go along, we lose our charter." The Legionnaires docilely chorused agreement. But one Legionnaire was shocked. Legionnaire Martin Merson, a 44-year-old lawyer and Navy veteran, who is still gaunt from malaria contracted on Guadalcanal, began checking around. He found that most of the post members had not the slightest idea of what they were...
...believe that it is sound policy to insist upon the rights of the public, in one way or another, to be informed of the acts of private institutions." The men explained that "it is from public authority that Harvard derives its charter and its freedom from taxation...