Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beyond a rather superficial general idea, since only the graphic scenes can be utilized, the system does not work. For instance, if a scene from the Continental Congress is shown, how is it to portray the strifes and the animosities and the high currents on feeling that crossed each other as each representative of the thirteen different states clamored for the specific rights of his own territory? How are the great arguments pro and con the freeing of the slaves to be expressed through the medium of sight? Obviously, such qualities as sight cannot reproduce must perforce be omitted from...
...Societe des Instruments Anciens will present a concert in Paine Hall next Wednesday evening at 8.15 o'clock. This concert is sponsored by the Library of Congress under the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, and is free of charge...
...works of nullification, states fights et al will be revived after an unbroken, if often troubled, slumber of nearly a century. Andrew Jackson's spirit doubtless smiles faintly, as it observes the dismay that spreads cloudlike over the visages of presidential candidates cornered by these two assiduous members of Congress. To be asked about the Eighteenth Amendment was bad enough, but with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, never mentioned except in the appendices of school histories, unearthed and held as a mirror to the poor candidate, one ceases to wonder at the nervousness of men in public life...
...ancient and honorable society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, whose thirty-seventh continental congress has just adjourned from its meeting in Washington, has managed to maintain itself in the position of notoriety to which its "black list" recently raised it. If publicity is the aim of the members of the organization, their efforts have not been in vain. Most of the initiated probably have at best a vague idea of the difficulties against which the D. A. R. is struggling. That there is a storm in progress in D. A. R. circles is evident, though its precise nature...
...inarticulate, and it is more than probable that they know what they want, even if others do not. At any rate they have taken steps to get it. The president-general, undaunted by a die-hard faction that called her "King George", and made ominous accusations that the congress had been a "steam-roller convention", seems to have won a great victory. The contract for supplying the members' pins was cancelled by a unanimous vote, the former holder of the contract having apparently been identified with the "Insurgents." It is obvious that such drastic treatment must get results, and with...