Word: conductional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Webster's broadest sense, sedition is ''excitement of discontent against the government"; narrowly it is "conduct tending to treason, but without an overt...
...Harvard that he had withdrawn his resignation as Finance Minister with the understanding that: 1) China's largest-standing-army-in-the-world (250,000) will be "quickly" reduced to one-half its present strength; 2) President Chiang and the War Office will for the first time conduct military operations on a stated budget; 3) the Finance Minister will in future be consulted and deferred to by the War Office in fixing the sums allotted in the military budget...
Such warnings of cattle-herding in U. S. prisons provoked no action in official Washington. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, for eight years the Assistant Attorney-General responsible for prison conditions as well as Prohibition and tax cases, spent more time worrying about the conduct of Federal wardens than prodding Presidents Harding and Coolidge to get more cells built...
Stoutly opposed was the great, bass-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan. While he is inclined to favor all-Jewish union, he regards the present Zionist leadership as weak, inadequate. Also opposed was the revisionist group, which is dissatisfied with the powerful conduct of the Zionist cause...
...Roberta Starr Semple, 18, and Son Rolph McPherson, 16. The itinerary will include a visit to the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany, will reach its climax in the Garden of Gethsemane on Jerusalem's outskirts. From twilight on Holy Thursday to twilight on Good Friday, Evangelist McPhers/on will conduct services. In the River Jordan she will supervise the baptism of 500 of her companions...