Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every member of the Student Council has a dual job to perform. First, he must attend the Council's weekly meetings where the group discusses various policy matters and makes recommendations to the Administration. Second, he must assume, alone or with another Council member, the leadership of one of the Council's working committees. Although the first function is important, it is the second which forms the backbone of the Council's activities...
Last Thursday evening, Council Chairmen presented their final reports summarizing their year's work. Some were able to point to a year of worthwhile accomplishments, but others could only outline vague and useless dabbling. In one case, when called upon to report, a Chairman said he didn't have anything...
...indeed, the Tories went. In the last major election test before next year's general elections, they inflicted a stinging defeat on Britain's Labor government, which was still sore from the beating it took at last month's London County Council elections and other county contests (TIME, April 18). All week, on successive voting days, 7,000,000 Britons went to the polls in Britain's first district and borough elections since 1947. All week, the chant of London newsboys sounded to Laborites like the voice of doom. "Socialists lose 15 towns . . . Sweep takes Stoke...
Distinction. In Detroit, after the suburb of Highland Park put up boundary signs saying, "You are now entering the city of lower taxes," the city council voted to put up counter-signs: "You are now leaving Detroit, where life is worth living...
Today marks the first meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers since December, 1947. A good deal has happened in the world during the 17 months that followed that last unsuccessful session, but very little of it has been designed to promote cheerful relations between the United States and Russia...