Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loge in Section 18, the Sargent and Radcliffe girls cast as Vestal Virgins in Section 23, and the members of the course, betoga'ed for the occasion, really "living" the period which they are studying. There is no limit to the pageants which might be staged. Not even the Congress of Vienna, staged in Sanders Theatre, is impossible, though the aid of allied departments might have to be enlisted after history professors had been exhausted in filling the more important roles...
With the nation unusually occupied with questions of paramount importance, domestic and international. Congress still concerns itself with little more than a wholehearted meddling in the choice of the next president. For the last two days, the Senate has devoted its time, almost entirely, to a discussion of the resolution introduced by Senator Lafayette which declares the third term "fraught with peril to the country," and "commends observance of this precedence by the President." The last clause is violently attacked by Senators Bingham and Gillette, strong supporters of Mr. Coolidge, as an unwarranted intimation that his services are no longer...
...administration could keep its leader indefinitely. Such, indeed, is the procedure in England, but it is efficient because the governing functions are not torn every four years by the dissensions of campaigning. The existence of the two methods in this country is disquieting, especially so because the majority in Congress is at present opposed to the President. Since little can be accomplished with such a deadlock, the insurgents are perhaps justified in siding with the Democrats in an effort to prevent Mr. Coolidge's re-election. But the means they have taken create a precedent that carries Congress still further...
Cleveland, Ohio, was proposed as the site of a 1930 interdenominational church congress to develop a spiritual and evan- gelical program that would "recapture the imagination" of U. S. youth. Said the Rev. Dr. William Robert King, executive secretary of the Home Missions Council: "We, the churches of the United States, must do something big and adventurous to appeal to the spirit of youth." Six committees will spend the next two years working out a program to accomplish this...
...Copley was married to California three dozen years ago when he took to wife a lady from Los Angeles. Previously he had attended Yale whence he returned to his native Illinois to manage and consolidate gas works. He has represented Illinois in Congress six terms. Newspaper publishing, begun 22 years ago, has finally weaned him utterly from public utilities and public life...