Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liggett, new to politics, meant not the direct primary, a local nominating method, but the popular election of Senators, as provided in the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, approved by Congress May 13, 1912. Mr. Liggett's Massachusetts was the first State to ratify it (May 22, 1912). Its final ratification came...
...Last year the A. F. of L. offered $1,000 in prizes in a competition for designs for a $120,000 memorial to the late great Samuel Gompers. Congress has already donated a site on Washington's Massachusetts Ave. hard by the A. F. of L. building...
...World Advertising Congress of 1929, repeating the great assemblage of 1924 in London. Dr. Hans Luther, onetime (1925-26) Chancellor of the Reich, welcomed the delegates. Charles C. Younggreen, big chief of the U. S. delegation made answer...
...stately halls of Kronberg castle there was last week babbling in many tongues, laughter, chatter, applause. Two thousand delegates to the International Educationists' Congress fought for room in the old knights' hall. Those who could not get in scurried off to the great privy council hall where loud speakers squawked preparatory to relaying speeches from the knights' hall...
What went on was similar to many a pedagogic congress held this summer, every summer. Three hundred papers were read, debated. There were speeches on the Dewey Method, the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka (Ill.) Technique. U. S. delegates compared methods, tried their ability in foreign languages and prepared to be off for more vacation, more conferences. Proudly they postcarded home that they had stood where Hamlet heard his father's ghost, had seen the room where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern told the King that as old student friends of Hamlet they could cure his lunacy...