Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slinking down Congressional corridors, exhaling its unhealthy influence into strategic offices, and craftily escaping detection. They call it the China Lobby, but until now no one has attempted to document this configuration. This has enabled magazines like Time, whose editor-in-chief Henry Luce has often been considered a charter member of the Lobby, to laugh away the idea of its existence...
...themselves by a church-directed state which applies the rules of religion with an iron glove. In the past, Cardinal Segura clashed with King Alfonso XIII because he thought him far too mild and liberal a monarch. Nowadays, he belabors Dictator Franco for Art. 6 of the new Spanish charter, which offers the paper assurance, at least, that non-Catholics may not be "molested" because of their religion...
...newspapermen have been meeting in Manhattan, discussing what the United Nations should recommend about newspapers in general. The idea of such a conclave--called the Freedom of Information Convention--belongs to an American newspaper society, which in the glow of the inter-Allied good-fellowship that followed the Atlantic Charter began agitating for a code to make the world's journals as free as those in America. The glow has dulled now, and the Convention has contributed much to its expiration...
...Ever since 1945, when the Spanish government authorized the opening of certain Protestant churches in this country, Protestant propaganda has considerably increased, and it has been tolerated to a far greater extent than is permissible in keeping with the . . . spirit of the charter of the Spanish people...
Censor's Whim. The editors learned their lesson the hard way. In 1944, with the Four Freedoms of the Atlantic Charter still ringing in their ears, 242 members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors passed a resolution urging the U.S. to persuade other nations to guarantee the press the same freedom that it enjoys in the U.S. Congress endorsed the A.S.N.E. proposal and the State Department drafted a proposed U.N. convention. Its main provisions would allow correspondents to move around the world freely, their copy safe from the whim of local censors, except where it touched on matters...