Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perfunctory was the opening last week of the first regular session of the 71st Congress. The Senate sat only seven minutes. Because of bad weather, elder legislators did not bother to attend. First business on the Senate calendar: the Vare case...
...favorite events on the Vagabond's calendar comes tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Music Building when Mr. Arthur Whiting will give a concert of seventeenth and eighteenth century music in the twenty-third season of his Exposition of Chamber Music. These concerts are undoubtedly one of the best musical attractions of the Harvard year and the Vagabond anticipates an excellent evening of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Gluck, and the others...
...bright young boy, one of the great advantages of being brought up in the Greek Orthodox Church is that you have two birthdays-your own real birthday and your name day, the day in the Church calendar assigned to your patron saint. Last week cannons booming at dawn woke Bucharest to help celebrate little King Mihai's real birthday, his eighth. In, the ornate National Cathedral, His Majesty, proud of his first long trousers, marched up the aisle with green-&-gold Generals to hear a Te Deum, marched down again to review two squadrons of the royal bodyguard...
Other Business. The committee on Jurisprudence took a firm stand against further limitations on the powers of the Federal courts; also advocated legislation providing for declaratory judgments. Advocated were the 13-month calendar year and a change in the U. S. President's inauguration date from March 4 to sometime in January. Condemned were the appointment of receivers in bankruptcy by Federal judges through, friendship or patronage, and any action which would reduce the exclusive rights of the patentee to his invention...
Three weeks ago Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin abolished Saturday and Sunday, instituted a new calendar, placed Russian industries on continuous working basis (TIME, Oct. 7). Kindred ideas of high pressure efficiency came last week to Spanish Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. He issued a manifesto...