Word: congress
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...States by the Vatican. The authorities of the Vatican do not know of his presence here. 2) Mr. Leccisi is merely an honorary Papal Chamberlain. As such he can no more be said to be a representative of the Roman Curia than one who has received a medal from Congress may be said to represent Congress. 3) The organization of a Diocesan Matrimonial Court is outlined, and in detail, by the Canon Law of the Church to such an extent that every official connected with the Court, or any one allowed to appear before it of the must be explicitly...
...from original manuscript on 16 Stradivari, Montagnana, Guadanini and Amati instruments from the Ronald Wanamaker collection, under the direction of Dr. Thaddeus Rich. When he heard that Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was nearing Mexico City (see p. 28), President Coolidge took-pen-in-hand and signed an act of Congress conferring the Congressional Medal on Col. Lindbergh. A little while later, while the President was sitting to Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Wright of Cleveland for his portrait, the daughter of another President called at the White House-Miss Aleccia Elias Calles of Mexico City, with two friends.* Young Miss Calles, dark...
...latter had indiscreetly accepted a loan from a member of a private shipping concern. Then there was the new $725,000,000 Navy program. See ARMY & NAVY) to be finally approved. And the administration tax program was being knocked out of joint by the House of Representatives (see THE CONGRESS). President Coolidge let the word go up Pennsylvania avenue that he was displeased and might veto the revenue act of 1928 if tax-cutting went too far. The Congress sent the President its $200,936,000 deficiency bill to sign- first major bill this session...
Better known, of course, is M. Buisson, now Honorary President of the League of the Rights of Man. Since he attended the first so-called "Congress for Peace and Liberty" in 1867, he has labored with and assisted almost every famed pacifist from Victor Hugo to Aristide Briand. Hundreds of peace tracts flowed incessantly off his pen during a literary activity of 60 years. Finally, he has raised his voice for peace in the French Parliament? as Herr Quidde has done in the German...
...students who had come from Bucharest and Jassy to hold a Nationalist congress at Oradia Mare, later claimed that the riots started when two Jewish butchers poured a caldron of boiling water on the heads of student marchers. This tale, perhaps true, was the only excuse offered last week, for the following student reprisals...