Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dirba. Two days later the Dies Committee heard a witness as outspoken and blunt as Witness Krivitsky was retiring. This was Maurice Malkin, 40-year-old naturalized Russian fur worker, charter member of the U. S. Communist Party, long a well-known figure in the allegedly Communist-dominated Fur Workers Union in Manhattan. Tossed into jail for two years after the incredible New York fur workers' strike of 1926,* Comrade Malkin nursed a grievance. But he remained a member until 1936, collected information, gossip, made statements that led Chairman Dies to observe: "It would be hard for the Chair...
...taken by the Soviet Export Corp. The keen Bolshevik traders who run this big business saw merely that German submarines and mines in the Baltic blocked the usual Russian autumn shipments of timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports the Scandinavians had not yet decided whether to lease their freighters, and anti-Soviet feeling was running especially high in Sweden...
...mismanagement, A. A. A. A. tried Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead of its subsidiary union, the American Federation of Actors (vaudeville and variety performers). When Whitehead, supported by A. F. A.'s sentimental President Sophie Tucker, fought back and A. A. A. A. finally withdrew A. F. A.'s charter, Stagehand Browne stepped in, gave Whitehead and his rebels an I. A. T. S. E. charter. This maneuver threw the actor-stagehand brawl into the laps of the A. F. of L. executive council. But no satisfactory compromise was forthcoming. To touch off a jurisdictional strike that might shut down Broadway...
When Japan stopped fooling in 1910, annexed Chosen and gave Li-Hsi's successor his walking papers. Oriental Consolidated was the oldest, biggest, richest, gold mining company in the Orient. Japan wryly observed the provisions of Oriental's charter: for payment of Y25,000 (about $8,500) annually to the Chosen Government, the mining company was free from all taxes, import-export duties. Eight years ago Japan got tough, embargoed gold exports, forced Oriental to sell gold to her at prices below the world market, paid off in unsteady Yen. Last week Oriental, last big U. S. concession...
...Governor Dudley signed a charter which gave to the "President & Fellowes" of Harvard College, a self-perpetuating body known collectively as The Corporation, the power "to make from tyme to tyme such orders & Bylawes for the better ordering & carying on the works of the College as they shall thinck fitt...