Word: congress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mary's Athletic Club will hold its first spring handicap meeting on the Congress street baseball grounds, Boston, on Saturday...
...Duniway opened the debate for Harvard. He said that the proposition had two evident features. It would require the secretaries to act in dual capacities, and would add eight full members to one branch of Congress, and that the locally representative house. He attempted to show that the first of these aspects was an unwise admixture of executive and legislative functions, and that the second ran counter to the allpervading theory of American constitutional government...
...government further than they find these useful in advancing themselves and their friends politically, or in getting money. Even now there is encamped in one of the beautiful valleys of Maryland an army of eight thousand vagabonds who are marching to Washington with no further purpose than to force Congress to pass laws for their own welfare, not for the good of the country. And these vagabonds may be said to be a representative body of American people, for always since the founding of the nation, have states, corporations, and individuals continually sought to make the governing bodies pass laws...
...addressed the Prospect Union Wednesday night, will speak before the Cambridge Social Union this evening on "Socialism." Mr. Sanial, who is a graduate of the University of Paris, studied under Auguste Comte and is regarded as the foremost socialist of this country. He was president of the International Labor Congress at Brussels in 1891. The lecture will be given in the Social Union's rooms on Brattle Street, at 8 o'clock. All members of the University are invited to attend...
...Lucien Sanial, of New York (late President of the Brussels International Labor Congress, and Delegate of the New York Central Labor Federation to the Zurich Congress of 1893), will deliver an address on "History of Socialism in America," in Brattle Hall, this evening...