Word: charterers
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...Ford. His father was a prominent publisher; his mother Constance was the industrious translator who gave a whole generation of English readers the feeling that all the great Russians (Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky) wrote in the same curiously flat style. With such parental credentials, "Bunny" Garnett became almost automatically a charter member of the post-World War I Bloomsbury group, which included Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster. Those earlier friendships he wrote of in the first two volumes of his autobiography-The Golden Echo and Flowers of the Forest. In the present volume he opens, with...
...responded with cries of "hear, hear" and that was all that was heard from them for the remainder of the meeting. Incensed by the Poonies, DeGuglielmo declared that "No one can come here to make serious public servants an object of their buffoonery of Lampoonery." He then exercised his charter right and declared the nomenclature question a dead issue...
Rising Tide. The league began in 1913 when some 15 members of B'nai B'rith, the Jewish service organization, gathered at the call of Chicago Lawyer Sigmund Livingston. They had concluded, as the league's charter states, that "for many years the Jewish and non-Jewish citizens have failed to meet this tendency [of antiSemitism] by any means save quiet criticism. But the tide has been rising until it calls for organized effort to stem it." Their immediate goal: "To stop, by appeals to reason and conscience, and if necessary by appeals to law, the defamation...
...despite its size, the Commonwealth alone is unlikely to give Britain the trading scope that its economic health requires. Organized in 1931, its trading charter called for the members to send their agricultural products and raw goods to Britain, buy manufactured goods in return. But during World War II, Britain revitalized its farms, reducing its need for imported foodstuff. After the war, as Commonwealth members began to industrialize, they threw up tariffs to protect their fledgling industries. Last year, even while Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker was pleading with Prime Minister Macmillan not to join the Common Market, Canada slapped...
...appeal, in a letter sent to Secretary-General U Thant, claimed that the ruling of the tribunal violated "the Charter of the U.N., the Declaration of Human Rights, and the United Nations Genocide Convention...