Word: charterers
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Trivia. A major consequence of the new amity in Annapolis will be a constitutional convention to rewrite the state's 100-year-old charter, a farrago of archaisms and amendments so cluttered with trivia that it even spells out regulations for off-street parking in Baltimore. The legislature also adopted the state's first billion-dollar budget and passed a long-needed tax-reform measure, replacing the flat 3% state income tax with a graduated levy of from 2% to 5%, which will give Maryland a much-needed revenue boost of $120 million a year...
...charter is a nine-chapter, 117-article vote of confidence in the future, on which the Assembly's deputies have labored in Saigon's old French Opera House since last Sept. 27. In a country that has scarcely ever known freedom, the constitution, as its preamble declares, is aimed at creating "a republican form of government of the people, by the people and for the people." To the 16 million people of South Viet Nam, it represents the hope of having a government genuinely their own for the first time in their history. To the Communist masters...
...bring them up to the pay scale of outside unions. They have already applied for admission to the AFL as independent unions. The policy of the federation is not to admit a union splintering from one of its affiliates, but if Reuther leaves the AFL they may issue a charter to the disgruntled UAW members...
That is why the Charter of the United Nations begins with these words: "We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to have succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought sorrow to mankind..." And the Charter goes on to state these objectives: "to establish conditions under which justice, and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained ... and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security...
...lawyers' committee to fight F.D.R.'s Supreme Court "packing" plan in 1937, later drafted the 1940 Selective Service Act, established the American Bar Association's civil rights committee, and wrote a voluminous treatise (World Peace Through World Law) calling for extensive revision of the United Nations charter, total disarmament and formation of a world development organization to promote peace; of cancer; in Dublin...