Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board of Education fired six schoolteachers last week for refusing to tell a Senate subcommittee whether they were, or had ever been, party members (TIME, Sept. 22). The lever used to pry the teachers (five men, one woman) loose from their jobs: section 903 of the New York City charter, which provides that if a municipal employee refuses to answer a question about official business "on the ground that his answer would tend to incriminate him, [his] employment shall terminate." A few days later, the Board of Higher Education dismissed three municipal college professors who had clammed up before another...
...context'. . . Why did he skip the Secretary's further pledge that if there should be an attack on these countries, 'the initial reliance must be on the people attacked to resist it and then upon the commitments of the entire civilized world under the Charter of the United Nations'?" Far from "writing off" Korea, said Stevenson, Acheson's speech had served notice that the U.S. "would seek United Nations action against aggression...
...invoked the First, Fifth, Sixth and 13th Amendments to the Constitution. In the end, 18 of them took refuge in the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. As they testified, they knew that the New York City board of education was listening. The board contends that under the city charter, any municipal employee-cop, teacher, fireman or bureaucrat-who refuses to answer on the ground of self-incrimination may be fired from...
Died. David K. Niles, 62, charter New Dealer and administrative adviser to Presidents Roosevelt (1942-45) and Truman (1945-51); of cancer; in Boston. A Massachusetts-born son of Russian immigrants, Niles was brought to Washington in 1936 by Harry Hopkins, became a White House "mystery man" ("Part of my job is to keep my mouth shut"), specialized in dealing with labor and minority groups. Probably the greatest triumphs he is credited with: i) wangling $500,000 from John L. Lewis for President Roosevelt's 1936 campaign fund, and 2) helping to create the free state of Israel...
...dropped close" to $14 million by buying at the wrong time. And when penicillin prices cracked recently, he took another beating. Rosenstiel miscalculated on another score: figuring that the public would turn back to straight whiskies after the war, he plugged his straights (I. W. Harper, Ancient Age, Old Charter) more than did other distillers. But the public preferred blends. Straights now account for only 30% of the whisky sold today, v. 60% prewar. Rosenstiel also spread his advertising funds over so many products that his top blends (Schenley Reserve, Melrose Rare) were not plugged as hard as competing whiskies...