Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neither Alabama's nor Mississippi's delegation is likely to submit to one national party dictum--a pledge to support the party's nominee. In Alabama, Johnson supporters have had to charter a new party in order to assure that the President's name--they have no doubt he will be re-nominated--will be on the ballot. The regular party will support former Gov. George Wallace...
Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 introduced a resolution calling for the removal of DeGuglielmo. Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., who voted two years ago to hire DeGuglielmo, immediately exercised his "charter right," deferring any consideration of the motion to the next council meeting. A simple majority of the council would be needed to remove the manager...
...Taft, interpreted their powers narrowly and subscribed to the Whig theory of the President as an errand boy for Congress. At the other end are what Yale Historian John Morton Blum calls the "latitudinarians": those who, like Lincoln and Wilson, gave wide scope to the Constitution's vague charter...
From the first, the powers have been there for a strong President to use. When the Swiss examined the U.S. Constitution as a possible model for their own 1848 charter, they rejected it on the grounds that the presidency is a "matrix for dictatorship." Nonetheless, even the most activist Presidents have run into brick walls. "Lincoln was a sad man," F.D.R. once said, "because he couldn't get it all at once. And nobody can." At the end of one of his poorer days, Truman growled over a bourbon and water: "They talk about the power of the President...
...been on loan from the local Staechelin Foundation for 20 years. The museum more or less assumed that they were there to stay-together with a dozen impressionists and postimpressionists that, in the eyes of some collectors, are even more valuable. Unfortunately, last spring a plane belonging to a charter airline controlled by Peter Staechelin crashed, claiming 126 lives. As a result of lawsuits, the airline went bankrupt. To raise funds, Peter Staechelin persuaded the foundation, of which he was a principal officer, to put the two Picassos up for sale...