Word: council
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swift punishment for the killing was directed by General George Argeshanu, Commander of the Bucharest Army Corps and former War Minister, who was named premier to replace the slain Calinescu by King Carol II and the Crown Council...
...vast majority of U. S. churchmen were, for the time being at least keeping God out of it. The president of the Federal Council of Churches plumped for strict neutrality. So did Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Father Coughlin, the National Baptist Convention (Negro). The National Council of Methodist Youth vowed its refusal to participate in "any war in which the U. S. may engage...
...France, the "voluntary mobilization" of scientists was further advanced. A decree law of May 1938 instituted the High Council of Scientific Research Coordination, which has numerous subsections-e.g., mathematics, biology, hydraulics, chemistry, optics, ballistics, telecommunications-working closely with the Institute for Applying Scientific Research to National Defense. The Council's officers, members and associates include four Nobel Prizewinners-Jean Perrin, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Prince Louis Victor de Broglie...
Thirty-six hours before the German Army marched, Adolf Hitler organized his country for war. To run the internal affairs of Germany he named a six-man "Cabinet Council for the Defense of the Reich" empowered to issue decrees without even the signature of the Führer. Personnel...
...Sophie Tucker, fought back and A. A. A. A. finally withdrew A. F. A.'s charter, Stagehand Browne stepped in, gave Whitehead and his rebels an I. A. T. S. E. charter. This maneuver threw the actor-stagehand brawl into the laps of the A. F. of L. executive council. But no satisfactory compromise was forthcoming. To touch off a jurisdictional strike that might shut down Broadway's eleven shows, cripple night clubs and radio stations over the land, close Hollywood studios and possibly (through I. A. T. S. E.'s control of projectionists) every cinemansion...