Word: council
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rostrum for three days of earnest punning at Chicago's Stevens Hotel was a national Conference on Interstate Trade Barriers. At the Council's instance, seven Governors and the representatives of 37 States dabbled in Constitutional history, gazed gravely at charts depicting some of the most astonishing phenomena of current life in the U. S. Among facts related, deplored...
Parallel? To nervous Europeans behind their taut frontiers, last week's events seemed as world-shaking as those of the fateful summer of 1914. No ordinary diligence caused Premier Edouard Daladier to call a meeting of the French Council of National Defense on Easter Sunday. Nor did any ordinary crisis cause Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to break a well-earned fishing holiday in Aberdeenshire to hurry back to London and summon for the first time since the World War a full Cabinet session for Easter Monday. Parliament was also convened in special session...
Thousands of Iraqi crowded Bagdad's dirty streets, weeping and beating their breasts over the sudden death of 27-year-old King Ghazi I. Iraq's council of ministers announced that the next King would be Ghazi's three-year-old baby boy, Feisal II. For 14 years, until Feisal comes of age, Iraq will be ruled by a regent chosen from among royal uncles and cousins, who may easily fall prey to Iraq's Anglophobe troublemakers. How successful the British may be in educating Feisal to love England remains to be seen, but they will...
...Council report on athletics recommends the award of two kinds of House letter, the Varsity letter in House colors (given to intercollegiate winners in House sports) and the ordinary House letter, a uniform "H" in all sports...
Harvard's Student Council has seen that it is good, this land of milk and honey which lies across the Jordan. The Councilors have looked beyond an ocean in the search for a more ideal athletic establishment, and their eyes have at long last lingered on the historic precincts of Oxford and Cambridge. The revolutionary plan which they consequently sketched and which appears in the current athletic report is nothing more nor less than an approximation to the system of athletic relationships which exist in the twin sultans of English learning...