Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...document had been written-or more precisely, foisted upon the people -largely by mining interests, who hobbled the processes of government while exempting their own properties from taxation. But it was not until 1970 that the heel-dragging legislature, under pressure from reform-minded citizens, called for a new charter. Appropriately, members of that legislature, as well as all other elected Montana officials, were not invited to participate actively. This was to be a people's crusade...
...Divine Charter. As for using stolen documents, Anderson has no scruples, except that he and his staff do no pilfering themselves. He says that he believes the Constitution to be divinely inspired-an idea he derives from Mormon theology-and he interprets it as forbidding Government secrecy that allows officials to mislead the public. "The framers of the Constitution did not intend that," he maintains...
...perpetrated by Mrs. Beard. Among the lobbying fraternity in the capital, where salaries for such work often climb to six figures, Dita Beard was virtually unknown; she earned only $30,000 and lived in a modest house in nearby Arlington, Va. Important lobbyists entertain in baronial houses, charter airplanes, give lavish cocktail parties. Dita Beard lived more like a suburban schoolteacher. Once a year, in ITT's name, she gave a small Christmas cocktail party for 30 or 40 people. Curiously, the Senate antitrust subcommittee, which an ITT lobbyist would certainly try to influence, had never heard...
...high seas, is due to dock at New Orleans this month with a cargo of Rhodesian chrome. The shipment violates the sanctions against trade with Rhodesia imposed by the United Nations Security Council in 1966 and marks the first time the U.S. has deliberately ignored its U.N. charter obligations...
Senator John F. Parker (R-Taunton) opposed the bill. He said Wednesday that any change in the charter of a city government should be made by people living in the city and "not by the politicians on Beacon Hill...