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When the Y. W. C. A. meets in biennial assembly, as it did last week in Milwaukee, many important points come up for serious discussion and decision...
Nowadays the country is facing the "enforcement crisis" and last week the Anti-Saloon League meeting in Chicago called its biennial convention by that name. It was a great meeting. To it came Bishop Thomas Nicholson, President of the League; Francis Scott McBride, General Superintendent; Wayne B. Wheeler, its Washington representative; William H. Anderson, former superintendent of the New York State branch; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews (in charge of Prohibition); Andrew Volstead, onetime Congressman; Roy Asa Haynes, Prohibition Commissary; Senator Sheppard of Texas, who introduced the 18th Amendment in the Senate...
...Calvin Coolidge, Honorary Moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, opened the Council's nine-day biennial meeting at Washington with an address (see Page 32, RELIGION). ¶ Dust-covered, in a grimy automobile, a Pennsylvanian drove through the streets of Washington and pulled up at the curb to ask directions. A determined-looking, agile little man, with the alert step of a New England Yankee, was walking by. "Hey, there," called the motorist, "where's the White House? Where's the Capitol?" The little man (Calvin Coolidge) appeared to be familiar with Washington geography...
...principal features which the Association is taking over from the Conference is the biennial fall session held at points distant from Boston and devoted to discussion of the spiritual aims of our denominational effort. The biennial conference is increased in importance by the merging of the two bodies. The gathering retains the completely free representative character that has marked its history of more than 60 years and its self-direction by the right to appoint its own committees of arrangements. Its actions, however, have a greater significance than before, in that they are binding in everything except appropriation of funds...
...call upon Unitarians of the United States and Canada to make the first biennial conference of the new and wider fellowship of free churches notable in their history, and to give a demonstration of the devotion of the liberal forces of Christianity to their great cause...