Word: conference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history, geographical position and culture confer the right and impose the duty on our little Germanic country of being and remaining a useful member of the community of nations. . . . Not by fratricidal strife but by co-operation can the nations solve the great problem...
...Chicago went Andre de Laboulaye, French Ambassador to the U. S., to confer the cross of the Legion of Honor upon President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University, in recognition of his Wartime personnel work (for which he also received a Distinguished Service Medal). This year Northwestern and the University of Chicago are to "cooperate" by exchanging facilities, with the expressed hope of making Chicago "the greatest university centre in the U. S." Last week both were joined with seven other Chicago institutions in offering help to 3,600 one-time students of the city's Crane Junior College...
...education in our social development." Further, NRA should bring an increased interest in, and revaluation of, history, civics, government and economics (at present studied by only 3% of all high-school students). Relief. When Dr. Zook became Commissioner he announced he wished to bring experts frequently to Washington, to confer and make available to all the nation their combined ideas. Exclaimed he: "I would like to see our conference room occupied by one such conference every week!" Since then Commissioner Zook has sponsored three gatherings. One had to do with plans for a study of methods for evaluating the work...
...tightening Albania's belt. Last week His Majesty said a stiff good-by to Italian General Pariani, long attached to the Albanian Government in the capacity of kibitzer extraordinary and unofficial boss (officially he was "Military Adviser to Albania"). Back to Italy also went Archbishop Delia Pietra to confer with Pope Pius XI about King Zog's recent bold closing of Italian schools throughout Albania. According to members of His Grace's entourage: "Albanians educated at Italian expense show a distressing tendency to remain Albanian in ideology...
...Passed (211-to-4) a Senate bill to confer Bachelor of Science degrees on Army graduates at West Point, Navy graduates at Annapolis, Coast Guard graduates at New London...