Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report of his Freedom of the Press Committee. Col. McCormick is a he-champion of Freedom of the Press. Last fortnight he indignantly announced the withdrawal of the Tribune's correspondent from Moscow because the Soviet censors would permit only twaddle to be wired out of their perfect commonwealth (TIME, April 29). Last week he fell upon Minnesota's so-called...
...little inexplicabilities with which one becomes acquainted by a Harvard education is the way in which the divine will is interpreted by the deliberative bodies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Just why, for instance, the playing of tennis is to be looked upon as unholy in the hours before 2 and after 6 o'clock of a Sunday afternoon, but is perfectly acceptable during the hours between is a particularly knotty theological problem. One might conjecture that the auspices were unfavorable to any other arrangement on the day when this regulation was enacted but there seems little other reason...
...opening meeting will be held on Monday, August 19, in Sanders Theatre, Officials of the University, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and of the government of the United States will be on hand to welcome the delegates. At this session Professor August Krogh of Copenhagen will be the chief speaker. Scientific sessions will be held from Tuesday to Friday at the Medical School. On Thursday evening, August 22, a large banquet will be staged, possibly in Memorial Hall though it is doubtful whether that structure can accommodate a sufficiently large number of people...
...Herbert Ames, who was Treasurer of the League of Nations from 1919 to 1926, will address Government '2b today at 2 o'clock in Harvard 6, his subject being "Canada's Role in the British Commonwealth of Nations and in the League of Nations...
...more widely circulated journals may be interested to know that Mr. Nielson finds that college men lose all marks of their special training after ten to fifteen years when viewed in the storied light of a Pullman smoking room, but it is hardly fit food for the thought of Commonwealth avenue...