Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Farm Board last week dipped deep into its capacious pocket and drew forth $100,000,000 for wheatmen throughout the land. It was Husbandry's biggest loan. If this sum were not enough to help cooperative associations stabilize the wheat market, the Board promised to ask Congress to advance more of its $350,000,000 credit still untouched...
...succession both his second Prime Ministry (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926) and the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. He was losing his grip on his party (Radical Socialist). Edouard Daladier saw his chance. With sly intrigue and ruthless, slashing, open vituperation he routed his patron at the Party Congress two years ago, seized the Presidency of the Radical Socialists for himself. After all there are some 20 party groups in France. Outside his own Edouard Daladier remained only a vaguely familiar name-until last week. Then his number turned up on the madcap, illogical roulette wheel of French politics...
...Close of world engineering congress at Tokyo...
...getting research published, demonstrating at a clinic, having his patients gossip about his work, and presenting himself to his colleagues for personal study. So some 3,000 men and a few women took time to display themselves at Chicago. The big affair of the week was the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, whose Fellows include all the good practitioners of the country. Attending members studied and discussed hospital improvement plans, cancer research, industrial surgery, treatment of fractures, eye-ear-nose-&-throat surgery, care of crippled children. Acrimonious was the discussion on hospitals. Charged William James Mayo...
...World engineering congress at Tokyo. Oct. 31-Mme. Marie Curie honor guest of American Society for the Control of Cancer, in Manhattan. Medicine...