Word: agendas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the President avoided mention of Debts, Tariffs, Silver and every other subject on the agenda of the I. C. C. and sprang as a neat surprise the syllogism that the way out of Depression is via Disarmament...
Joshua of the world fight against the narcotic trade is Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, who sat in Manhattan last week with dope-haters of 21 countries. They were whipping up interest in Narcotic Education Week and preparing agenda for a World Conference at Geneva this...
...meeting next March an important council was held in a room of Dunster House on Sunday, January 11, at which time the final plans for the organization of the coming event were decided upon, the results of which were not disclosed until yesterday evening when the complete agenda for the commissions and for the assembly were announced including the official appointment of the officers in charge of the six commissions...
Birth Control. Secretary Wilbur also got into a fracas, but outside the agenda of the conference. Mrs. Frederick Robertson Jones, president of the American Birth Control League and a conference invitee, wanted the conference to report on birth control. Her efforts (she said) "brought only ridicule and curt replies. . . . Not a single committee was willing to let us put this problem before them." Impatient, she scolded at sociologists: "They are still governed by sentiment and tradition. . . . They refuse to apply biology, even though this science has been concerned with defectives for years. America should not have 10,000,000 defective...
...France was not afraid to shout "No!" ten times more positively. He was also able to convince Italy that he had the silent backing of Britain and the U. S. Defeated in the first round, Signor Grandi withdrew his demand that ratios and total tonnages come first on the agenda, but saved the face of Signor Mussolini by a voluble oration to the effect that Italy "reserves" these points and will not join in any agreement reached by the conference until they have been settled...