Word: charterers
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...result, Taft will get considerable labor support, while many a conservative who looks upon a "liberal" Republican as an apostate will vote for Lausche. Some Republicans have never forgiven the younger Taft for helping to break the Republican machine's power in Cincinnati in 1924, when the nonpartisan Charter movement established the city manager form of government. Charlie Taft is a pleasant, hardworking campaigner, but his speeches are not striking fire in this campaign...
Newfoundland also is cashing in handsomely on the $200 million building program at the U.S. bases in the province. Fort Pepperrell, near St. John's, the Harmon air base on the southwest coast, and Argentia naval base, near which Churchill and Roosevelt held their Atlantic Charter meeting in 1941, are all being expanded. Much of the money is paid out directly in wages to Newfoundland workmen. Newfoundland also benefits from the free-spending U.S. troops stationed there...
After three days of hearings, Committeeman Ferguson went back to Washington. He will return some time next month, he said; meanwhile, New York City would carry on alone. Last week the city claimed some powerful new support for the job: a state court of appeals decision upholding a city charter provision that any municipal employee who refuses, on the grounds of selfincrimination, to answer questions before an authorized body may be fired. Henceforth, all the board of education has to do to get rid of a suspected Red is to prove that he has used the Fifth Amendment to avoid...
...soon had 15 members, christened themselves "The Chowder and Marching Club," and met informally (there was usually a bottle of whisky but no chowder on the table; Nixon himself rarely takes a drink). By being well informed and determined, the group became a force in the House. Says one charter member: "Fifteen guys can do a lot with members who know little about a given bill...
Keeping Away. Vacationing at his home in Monroe, La., Chennault announced that his Formosa-based C.A.T.-which operates a fleet of 30 airliners over 3,100 miles of airways from Tokyo to Bangkok -will first overhaul, then charter or sell the planes. Said Chennault: "My interest is to keep them away from the Reds. This is the first Communist defeat in the Far East. That's the thing I take the most pride...