Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Charter. Some 2,600,000 voters in New York City had the opportunity of adopting a new city charter in place of the 35-year-old charter under which Tammany long thrived. Drawn up by a Commission including Thomas D. Thacher, onetime Solicitor General of the U. S., Charles Evans Hughes Jr., also a onetime Solicitor General, Thomas I. Parkinson, president of Equitable Life and other men of similar calibre, the proposed charter provided 1) centralization of legislative power in new City Council of 32 members, 2) making the Board of Estimate (formerly also a legislative body) into...
...doubt, with so many State Governors and big shots enrolled in the Legion mob, it is too much to hope that Congress will ever revoke the Legion charter; but at least we can look forward to the day when every major city will have decided to protect its people from further destruction of property, criminal attacks, intimidation, and indignity. For next year's convention, dear buddies, may I suggest the most inaccessible reaches of the Mojave Desert...
...elated by the success of his Chicago oratory, Nominee Landon appeared in Cincinnati next morning to furnish more proof of his growing self-confidence. At the station to meet him was his favorite Cincinnatian and prized adviser, bright young Charles P. Taft II, leader in the city's Charter reform movement (TIME, Aug. 3). After shaking hands with other welcomers, Alf Landon turned to Charlie Taft, checked with him to be sure of the name "Charter," started toward a radio microphone set up for the occasion. Guessing the Nominee's intention, and well aware that the Charterites...
...club is restricted to a few charter members, while the dues are $.25 a week. They will be collected up to the night of the third, when they will be spent on liquor to cheer up the Democrats in the club and further arouse the Republicans...
...County. Last month Walker County's miners came home to hear shocking news from their children's mouths. Three of the county's schoolteachers, who had been organizing their 375 colleagues into a Teachers' Association and were trying to pet an A. F. of L. charter, had been fired for "incompetence, outside activity." To this familiar gesture, the miners made a familiar answer. Last week Walker County's Central Labor Union Council, having unsuccessfully demanded the dismissal of crusty School Superintendent Albert Sidney Scott, had called a good share of the county...