Word: biennials
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...quintet of German chessmen: the biennial international tournament for the Hamilton-Russell Cup.* Davis Cup of chess; conquering 26 other nations and just squeezing out a team of nerve-racked Poles by half a point (36 to 35½); after a siege of 27 days; at Buenos Aires. U. S. chessmen, victors in 1933-35-37, did not compete this year because they couldn't be bothered...
...oval tent big enough to hold a three-ring circus was pitched last week in an Allensville, Pa. hayfield. No circus did it contain but the biennial world conference of the Mennonite Church. A plain-garbed, plain-spoken sect holding the tenets of 16th-Century Netherlander Menno Simons, the Mennonites shun attention and cities alike. At Allensville, surrounded by the rugged mountains of central Pennsylvania that hem in the fertile and tranquil Kishacoquillas Valley their ancestors settled before the Revolution, they felt perfectly at home. The 7,000 delegates came from Argentina, Tanganyika, India and all North America...
...Sacramento, Culbert Olson had learned enough to moan that the Laborites and assorted liberals who concerted to elect him had made a disastrous mistake. They let Republican conservatives retain control in the Senate, Democratic conservatives in the lower Assembly. Before it adjourned last week after the longest (133 days) biennial session in California history, California's Legislature...
...World Federation of Education Associations, a nonpolitical, nonsectarian, decidedly conservative organization, this year accepted Brazil's invitation to hold its biennial conference (from August 6 to 11) in Rio de Janeiro. Few weeks ago, after some Federation members had already started to roll down to Rio, Brazil's Government (in which General Goes Monteiro's Army is potent) abruptly called the meeting...
...local music clubs, with a total of 500,000 lady members ready to defend the diatonic scale as they would defend their young. Last week 5,000 of them, smartly dressed and a little less bosomy than D. A. R. ladies, wound up in Baltimore the 21st biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs, moved on to New York City for two days at the World's Fair...