Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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An Anglo-French convention of 1839 made the Minquiers Islands an international fishing zone. Shelters were permitted on them but not stone buildings for fear they would be used as fortifications. After the World War the question of sovereignty was again raised and the Minquiers group was made part of...
Only positive statement followed the first conversation when the official Tass News Agency, breaking diplomatic convention, announced that British proposals are "not wholly satisfactory."
>From "A Pronouncement upon Religious Liberty," passed unanimously by the Southern Baptist Convention in Oklahoma City, Okla., on May 20: "We oppose the establishing of diplomatic relations with any ecclesirstical body, the extension of special couresies by our Government to any ecclesiastical official as such, and the employment of any...
Year ago the United Lutheran Synod of New York considered instituting courses in sex education, "by Christian physicians of both sexes," in its Sunday schools. The Synod shelved the embarrassing question for a twelvemonth. Last week, in its annual convention in Albany, it heard from a Lutheran layman, Dr. G...
While in France the once mighty Left opposition devoted its annual convention almost exclusively to family quarrels last week, the British Left was scarcely less ineffectual. Biggest issue at the Labor Party Congress at Southport was the expulsion of Sir Stafford Cripps, tall, thin, wealthy, inconsistent, indiscreet ''Red...