Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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AWOL. In Thessalon, Ont., after worrying over their missing police chief for a week, the town council decided to fire him for neglecting his duties...
...Lake Success one day last week, Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp* announced that, by official U.S. estimate, Russia keeps between eight and 14 million people in slave labor camps. Semen Tsarapkin, Russia's representative to ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council), coolly ignored the charge; no one else seemed to care either. The world had read too many statistics of death and misery...
...weeks of day & night sessions by Peron's new National Economic Council had done little to stem the nation's tide of red ink. As a last resort, the council decided that Argentina would just have to borrow a lot of dollars. But from whom? With Argentines already owing U.S. businessmen an estimated $400 million, private U.S. banks were unlikely to put up any more. Nor was the World Bank, which Argentina had steadily snubbed, or the U.S. Export-Import Bank...
McGill University students take the election of their winter carnival queen with deadly seriousness. Last year there were charges that the vote was rigged. This year the student council adopted a foolproof ballot system and appointed dependable poll watchers...
...Goodman '51, chairman of the Council International Affairs Committee, will soon ask the Council for $200 as a start in the fund drive for DP living expenses. He estimates that each student will need $600 extra per year...