Word: charterers
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...troops to end the rebellion?only to see half of them wiped out by yellow fever and the rest thrown into disarray. In 1804, a former slave named Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti a free and independent nation and became its Governor General. "To draw up the charter of our independence," he felt, "would require the skin of a white man as parchment, his skull as an inkwell, his blood as ink, and a bayonet as a pen." Dessalines died by an assassin's bullet within three years. His successor, Henri Christophe, cared little for charters?black or white...
...Charter Member. "Ed couldn't wait to grow up," his mother once said of him. Born on a tenant farm in North Carolina, Murrow moved with his family to the state of Washington, later attended Washington State College, where he majored in speech. After graduation, he went to work for educational organizations and in 1935 was hired by CBS. Sent to Europe to line up cultural programs, he was on an assignment in Warsaw when he got word of the Nazi Anschluss. Hastily chartering a plane to Vienna, he arrived in time to broadcast the Nazi takeover. After this...
...Weather head Foundation is a Charter member of the Cleveland Compact Plan for Higher Education. The foundation recently sponsored a series of lectures by the noted histories Arnold Toynbee at the University of Puerto Rico...
...French and Russians were "correct" in not paying their assessments (as the headline reported) nor did he even say that they were technically correct (as the body of the story said). What he did say was that their position can be justified by a strict interpretation of the Charter, an interpretation with which he personally disagrees, but which gives the Franco-Russian position a firmer legal basis than most Americans realize. To say, that a particular political position can be justified by a strict construction of some fundamental law is quite a different thing from saying that it is even...
Graham emphasized, however, that his own view was that the Charter must be interpreted liberally if the U.N. is to meet the peace-keeping needs of a troubled world. He commented that the American press rarely notes the Russian position, based on this clause of the charter...