Word: council
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...born in Philadelphia. From Princeton he was graduated in 1901. During the War he served as a dollar-a-year-man in the U. S. Fuel Administration. His two chief interests: New York charities; Princeton University. For three years (1914-17) he was chairman of the Princeton Graduate Council. For another three years (1924-27) he was president of the Princeton Club of New York. He is a university life trustee member of its Administrative Committee, chairman of its Library Committee...
Eight men have been selected by the Harvard Debating Council for the first debate of the year to be held Friday, November 8, with the New Jersey Law School at Newark, New Jersey, it was announced last night...
...Salvation Army, entered heaven, he left his dynasty in the hands of his son, William Bramwell Booth. William quarreled with his sister, Commander Evangeline Cory Booth; the dynasty was endangered (TIME, Jan. 14). Last March the deadlock between Salvationists Bramwell and Evangeline was broken when the Salvation Army Council elected Edward John Higgins as General (TIME, Mar. 11 ) . Salvationists Bramwell and Evangeline had another sister, Lucy Booth-Hellberg, 61, stationed at Stockholm, where were her home and her husband's grave. Last week Lucy Booth-Hellberg, appointed to a station in South America, East, by General Higgins, sailed. Before...
...labor organization in the world."* Elated, President Green enthused, "No more significant event has ever happened in the history of the A. F. of L. than this announcement." Injunction Power is the breaker of strikes, the bane of organized labor. For its restriction the A. F. of L. executive council concocted a bill last summer (TIME, Aug. 23). With but one dissenting vote the convention endorsed the bill, hoped wanly for congressional action on it. Organization of Southern Labor was undertaken by the federation with a fervent, choral "aye." A committee was enthusiastically delegated to gather...
...Black Diamond spied them, gave Pickett a malevolent look, wrapped him in his trunk and tossed him over a box car. The nine-ton beast then smashed Mrs. Donohue to the ground, trampled the life out of her. When Pickett had been sent to the hospital, keepers held a council, wired to Circus Owner John Ringling for advice. Mr. Ringling condemned Black Diamond to death. The keepers tried to feed him poisoned oranges but he was wary. They considered drowning him. Finally they took him. shackled between three other elephants- to a cotton field, chained him to two trees. Hans...