Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time since its inauguration the annual International Physiological Congress is to be held in America this summer. The Harvard Medical School has been chosen as the place for the session...
Like Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and many another European state, France has long had a system of restricting U. S. film imports. The reason is similar to that which caused Congress to put a tariff on French gowns and hats. Supreme and unrivaled in their own fields are Parisian modistes and Hollywood producers. As yet, however, Congress has not decreed that for every three gowns that a Parisienne sells in the U. S., she must buy one U. S. gown and try to sell it in France. The uproar, the heaven-piercing cries for justice which would rise from...
...posts. Shrewd, they learned Oriental languages, heard confessions in German, Greek, Turkish. Some-times they adopted and altered slightly alien rituals to make their gospel first familiar, then embraced. In Jerusalem they erected the Hôtelrie de Notre Dame de France. Here in 1893 was held a Eucharistic Congress. In 1900, republican France accused the Assumptionist Fathers of royalist intrigues. Their schools were closed, their activities halted. They fled to Italy, Belgium. England, the U. S. Thus it came to pass that their little college in Worcester, Mass., was founded...
...Barlow settled in Havana. He dreamed it might one day be a fashionable winter resort. He helped develop the Marianao residential district, laying water mains on the Cuban Government's promise of reimbursement. He now claims that $122,000 is still owing on this account, that the Cuban Congress has appropriated the money, that President Machado has refused...
...best citizens' would work a greater revival in this country than all the prayers and preachments of all the reformers." In his second lecture, after mocking at the pretentious, windy, ambiguous pronouncements of the quadrennial party platforms, he said: "Why not at the last session of every Congress preceding an election have a party manifesto framed, agreed to and officially promulgated by the representatives of the party in the Senate and House...