Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy as a lieutenant commander, became flag secretary to Admiral William Halsey (who called him "a great naval officer"), and rose to captain. Franklin Roosevelt called him from the Pacific in 1945 to serve as a U.S. delegate to the San Francisco Conference that wrote the United Nations charter...
Article 1 of the U.N. Charter obliges the U.N. to promote "respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms"; Article 2 bars it from interfering in the "domestic" affairs of member nations. Last week, in the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, these two principles collided head on. Invoking Article 1, Arab, Asian and African nations proposed a U.N. commission to "study the race situation" in South Africa. France, Britain and half a dozen others objected, citing Article 2. But the ayes had it, 35-2. Not voting: 22 nations, including the U.S., which "deplores" South Africa's racism...
...same time, Dean Watson reiterated his stand of last October 17 that "if the Young Progressives act in good faith and make a concerted effort to get advisers, the Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Activities will certainly not suspend their charter...
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NOV. 10 ISSUE. IT WAS IN OUR HANDS IN LOS ANGELES LESS THAN 36 HOURS AFTER FINAL ELECTION RETURNS. AS A CHARTER SUBSCRIBER . . . THIS SPEEDY COVERAGE GIVES US THE BIGGEST THRILL...
...some of the backward Indies. In London, the Colonial Office announced that most of Britain's West Indian islands had agreed to federate. Next spring, delegates from the legislatures of Jamaica, Trinidad, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands will meet in London to draw up a charter. By the time they have settled on terms, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands and continental British Guiana and British Honduras may be ready to join in a federation of all British possessions in the Caribbean...