Word: congre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daniel N. Dunlop had been dead a year when the Troisième Conference Mondiale de l'Énergie et Deuxieme Congrès de la Commission Internationale des Grands Barrages was called to order last week. The Third World Power Conference and Second Congress on Large Dams was composed of an official committee from each of the 52 nations represented. But any of the 2,000,000,000 inhabitants of the world wanting to hear and talk about l'énergie-not only electricity, gas and waterpower, but also coal and oil-was entitled, by paying...
...Cheer for Briand but Vote for Doumer." The Salle du Congrés, where Chamber and Senate met last week as the National Assembly, is shaped like an oblong box, the rostrum being at the centre of one of the longer sides. Behind the rostrum is a stately backdrop for the show, a wall against which brown columns stand like sentinels with ornate Corinthian caps. Around the other three sides of the room galleries rise tier on tier. A magnet for every eye is the great green-&-gold Voting Urn. As everyone knows, Aristide Briand, twelve times Prime Minister...