Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Republican Club at the Union last night Lieutenant-governor F. G. Allen, Congress man C. L. Beedy of Maine, and Henry Parkman, Jr. '15 addressed a gathering of undergraduates and graduates of the University. F. A. Clark '29, chairman of the executive committee of the meeting Republican Club presided at the meeting and introduced the three speakers...
...accompanied by their own band which customarily plays during their drills. This band, however, is of a very different character from other college musical organizations, since it does not form its personnel from among the cadets but is composed of mature and experienced musicians who are paid by the Congress of the United States just for the purpose of furnishing music for the West Pointers march. This band will in all probability not execute any manoeuvres but as is its habit will march to one corner of the field and remain stationary until the completion of the drill...
...Congress, pushing Leader MacDonald's theory to its logical conclusion soon formally resolved that if returned to power the Party will restore diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia. Lastly the Congress voted that all Communists shall be rigorously excluded from the Party...
...Turner received the rousing cheer to which he was entitled as retiring Chairman of the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress. Hard-bitten "Ben" Tillett was then elected Chairman...
Within this region, on the Rock River estate of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for Illinois Congress-man-at-large, her Holstein herd graze. Prof. George W. Cavanaugh of Cornell University secured permission to subject those Rock River cows to an experimental diet. Since July11 they have become epicures among cows, familiar with rare seasoning. Their ordinary feed has been powdered with seaweed rich in iodine...