Word: biennially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peace on earth, good will to men seldom comes about except when an angel stalks behind the scenes. John L. Lewis, international President of the United Mine Workers, has not joined the angelic host. Nevertheless, at the biennial convention of District 1 of the United Mine Workers, held at Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Lewis pulled wires which brought an unexpected peace. President Lewis wanted no division of his supporters while he was carrying on negotiations for a new contract with the mine operators...
Finally, with two demands settled, and the others hanging in air, the conference adjourned for a week. The object of the adjournment was to permit the miners to attend the biennial convention of the District 1 union. At this convention the election of Capellini as President of that union is expected to be ratified. In that event, soon after the reassemblage of the conference at Atlantic City, Cappelini, most radical of all the miners' leaders, will automatically take a place on the subcommittee that bargains with the operators-and the conference will fight out the remaining issues...
...Toppan biennial prize for the best essay of not more than fifteen thousand words on a subject in political science goes to William Leonard Langer 5G., of Cambridge; the Ricardo prize scholarship, for the best essay written in a special examination held for competitiors, to Howard Sylvester Ellis, 1G., of Iowa City, Iowa; and the Menorah Society prize, for the best essay by an undergraduate on the work and achievements of the Jewish people, to Abram Vossen Goodman '24, of Brookline...
Twenty years ago Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt organized the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. On May 12 that organization opens its biennial convention in Rome, and Mrs. Catt has announced that she will finally retire from the Presidency which she has held since 1904. As a lecturer and woman suffrage leader she is known throughout the country and also as a most prominent advocate of the Nineteenth Amendment. During recent months she has been touring South America, arousing the proponents of suffrage in those countries. Her last official act as President of the International Alliance will be to make a report...
...second biennial intercollegiate conference on undergraduate activities was begun yesterday morning at the University of Pennsylvania, when delegates from 30 colleges and universities registered. The afternoon and evening were occupied by a conference which met in four bodies, with A. S. Dashiell of Princeton in charge of the discussion on Student Government, E. L. Kaw of Cornell in charge of athletics, G. S. Nesbitt Jr of M. I. T. in charge of publications and E. S. Husted of Yale in charge of musical clubs, dramatics, and debating...