Word: charterers
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According to Howe, it was the sense of the group that "the investigating operations of the House Un-American Activities Committee should be upset." He noted that the absence of any restrictions in the HUAC charter enables the committee to study "all un-American propaganda--whatever that may be" and leads to what he termed an "exuberantly irresponsible manner of investigation...
Supporters of John J. Curry '19 found a new weapon to defend the suspended city manager last week by taking steps to have three anti-Curry Councillors charged with criminal infractions of the City charter...
...latest series of charges--attributing criminal infractions of the City charter to three anti-Curry councillors--seem especially unnecessary. Of the three applications for criminal complaints filed so far, only one was brought directly by Curry, but all seem to have been inspired by the suspended manager or his supporters. The charges raise questions about the legality of the daily workings of the entire City government. For example, councillor Bernard Goldberg is accused of trying to influence Curry illegally by urging the selection of his father as city solicitor. Goldberg admitted that he spoke to Curry about his father...
Before Curry spoke, his lawyer, Francis J. Roche, declared that the suspended manager was appearing under protest. Roche argued that the removal proceeding, taken under the City's charter, was preempted by another law which protects veterans in governmental service from arbitrary dismissal. "Curry served in World War I, and does not waive...his legal right as a war veteran," Roche said. He demanded a hearing under this procedure, which, he said, would make it more difficult for the Council to dismiss Curry...
...Jamaica last summer, sport fishermen blasted away at a long liner's glass floats with rifles. In Acapulco, only the timely arrival of a Mexican coast-guard boat averted a shooting match between charter-boat vigilantes and a Japanese long liner armed with a machine gun. And last July, when a flotilla of Norwegian long liners steamed into Maryland's Jack Spot, a pair of charter-boat skippers roared out and carved up the long lines with their boats' propellers...