Word: congress
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seventh International Zoological Congress will meet at the University Medical School this summer from August 19 to August 23. This will be the first of these congresses to be held in America, as the other six were at paris, Moscow, Leiden, Cambridge, England, Berlin and Bern, respectively...
...Alexis Aladyin, the head of the first Russian Peasant party in the Duma, in his speech in the Union on Wednesday, suggested that a petition signed by as many students as possible be presented to Congress, voicing a protest against the practises of the Russian government against its people...
...soon turned to political life. His public career began in the Massachusetts legislature in 1875, and from then on he has been prominent in political circles. From 1880 to 1882, he was Governor of Massachusetts, and at the expiration of his term of office was elected a member of Congress. At the time of the Spanish War, Mr. Long held the important portfolio in President McKinley's cabinet of Secretary of the Navy. His sagacious management of the navy during those years of war with Spain showed him to be one of the most capable statesmen...
...McAdoo's term of public service began in the New Jersey Assembly. From 1883 to 1891, he represented the seventh district of New Jersey in Congress, and from 1893 to 1897 held the position of assistant secretary of the Navy. The most prominent years of his political career began in 1904, when he was appointed Police Commissioner of New York City under Mayor McClellan. In this office, he worked against severe odds to bring order throughout the metropolis...
There is but one way to amend the Constitution, or even to real, sooer consideration of the subject of amendment, and that is through the action of State Legislatures, moving upon the Congress for a Constitutional Convention...