Word: chartering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council last night also approved the charter of the Harvard Committee for the Hoover Report, a group of students organizing to "acquaint the Harvard community with the purpose of the Hoover Report." In a similar action, the Council unanimously decided to allow the Russian Club to change its name to the Slavic Society...
...another U.N. birthday party last week, a group of less restrained celebrators commented at length, but scarcely said any more. Just four years after the signing of the San Francisco Charter, the U.N.'s General Assembly met in special open-air session at the site of the new U.N. building at the East River foot of Manhattan's 42nd Street, to watch the cornerstone laid for U.N.'s imposing new headquarters. As President Truman arrived at the 42nd Street site, the combined New York Police, Fire & Sanitation Department bands struck up The Sidewalks of New York, better...
...press conference, Vishinsky explained why he considered Yugoslavia's candidacy part of a "sinister underhand design." Article 23 of the U.N. Charter, he pointed out, required that nonpermanent Security Council members be elected "with due regard" to "geographical distribution." According to a U.N. "gentlemen's agreement,"claimed Vishinsky, this article in practice bound the Assembly to accept the nominees chosen by each regional group; i.e., a caucus of Latin American countries could pick the member from Latin America, etc. To Vishinsky this meant that Russia, and Russia alone, could pick the member for Eastern Europe.† Since Russia...
...lump all independents into one group in campaign literature--the opposition, "politicians," "grafters," or just poor choices. The CCA does have a case, however, in that many of the strongest independents are opposed to Plan E government, and sworn to remove at least the PR section of the city Charter. With the system working well now, and expected to do better, there is little reason to elect men who wish to return to conditions of ten years ago. But the Association can conduct its campaigns more carefully in the future--many independents deserve fairer treatment...
Meanwhile, he had been elected mayor of Boston again and had to leave City Hall to serve his term. It was then, that Curley's strongest opponent in the present, mayoralty race, John' B. Hynes, became acting mayor. The city's charter provides that the chairman of the city council be mayor in case the elected mayor's indisposition, but in such a confused state was the city of Boston, that the city council chairman was also being held on under indictment by a grand jury, charged with graft. Thus, Hynes, the City Clerk, became mayor and was given...