Word: biennial
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...Sproul the Administrator well knew that California's Legislature, about to meet in its biennial appropriations session, already felt none too friendly toward the University. At Berkeley he suppressed the troublemaking Social Problems Club, forbade student activity in the Merriam-Sinclair campaign. He was touring the State with soothing assurances of University loyalty when a bald, mild, solemn subordinate in Los Angeles set off last fortnight's fireworks...
Next day Italians welcomed U. S. Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell to the 12th biennial general assembly in Rome of the International Institute of Agriculture, a fact-finding body founded under the patronage of King Vittorio Emanuele with cash supplied by an earnest U. S. donor, the late David Lubin. Brain Truster Tugwell, who tousled himself somewhat before the U. S. Senate's inquiry into his beliefs (TIME, April 23), sleeked himself into a faultless cutaway last week and, with a purple violet peeping from his buttonhole, addressed the Institute, which promptly elected him a vice president...
...Savannah, Ga. met the 9th biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church. Re-elected president, as he has always been since the Church was organized in 1918, was Vandyke-bearded Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel of Manhattan. The United Lutherans flayed the liquor traffic and indecent cinema; cabled a protest to Adolf Hitler over the coercion of the German churches; came out for a fixed date for Easter and for more unity among the 18 North American Lutheran bodies. Especially would the United Lutheran Church (1,500,000 members) woo the American Lutheran Church (525,000 members). But the latter...
Occasion was the G. O. P. lunch which Massachusetts' earnest, broad-beamed Congressman Allen Towner Treadway gives before every biennial election. Mrs. Coolidge affirmed her affection for the State her husband loved, declared it had always found Republican administrations sound, nonpartisan, just. Said...
...seats built in front of the Church of San Trovaso, a brilliant audience greeted the pageant and its cast. Umberto, Prince of Piedmont and heir to Italy's throne, gave Producer Reinhardt his congratulations. After four performances the "localization" of The Merchant of Venice, arranged to climax the biennial Venetian art exposition, closed...