Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. of Arkansas filing the only suit now pending challenging the B. C. C.'s constitutionality, the Commission made grim-faced, 62-year-old Mr. Tetlow its official chairman. Coal miner's son, Percy Tetlow entered the mines himself at twelve, was a charter member of the United Mine Workers, began his career as a U. M. W. executive alongside William Green. When Percy Tetlow was fighting in the Argonne. his job was filled by none other than John L. Lewis. Now Miner Tetlow is Miner Lewis' right-hand man on the Coal...
...with huge white Ws. Originator, organizer and chief speaker at the meeting was Wisconsin's bespectacled 41-year-old Governor Philip Fox La Follette, whose supporters last spring ousted from the University's presidency Mr. Glenn Frank, the man who is now engaged in preparing a new charter for the Republican Party. Governor La Follette's purpose was to launch a national political organization with the definite political objective of electing a bloc of Congressmen this fall, with the probable objective of electing himself President in 1940. His means were: 1) a two-hour speech broadcast...
...line prepared last week to dismiss 1,200 men for good & all, Panama Pacific expressed the hope that the Maritime Commission would buy the three idle ships, charter them for operation by other companies between New York and the east coast of South America...
...Rightist President said that during the past year his Government, in addition to prosecuting the war, had stabilized prices, held down rents, abolished civil divorce and civil marriage (restoring these matters to the Catholic Church), and had given the people in Rightist Spain a Charter of Labor...
Under this Charter, according to President Franco, his adherents are now in course of staging a Social Revolution, and he warned Spaniards of the old regime they are completely deceived if they think the Spain of Franco will be a repetition of the Spain of Alfonso XIII. According to Harold Callender, the New York Timesman present at the broadcast, the Generalissimo is trying to build a State "expected to be neither capitalistic nor socialistic, which will respect private property within limits, and which yet will be highly socialized...