Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, from south of Morocco to black Senegal. Resplendent in blue turbans, the four Moors were feted and flattered for four days straight. They seemed to have no quarrel with Mauritania's status as a semi-autonomous political entity inside French West Africa. And since they included two council ministers, a tribal sheik and the powerful Mohammed Ould Fall Oumer, Emir of Trarza and absolute ruler of 50,000 warriors, France had every reason to believe that it had won strong support for its plans to set up a central executive over the loosely linked, Frenchsponsored West African Federation...
...party presidents from the Lukiko, even had National Congress Party Chairman Joseph Kiwanuka tossed into jail on the charge that he was plotting to assassinate the King. Last month the Lukiko rejected a plan to hold direct elections for Buganda's five delegates to the British-sponsored Legislative Council of Uganda, followed up with a resolution withdrawing official recognition from all political parties...
...accumulation of jobs is impressive. He is a top man in the ecumenical movement as 1) chairman of the policymaking Central and Executive Committees of the World Council of Churches, and 2) member of the Policy and Strategy Committee of the National Council of Churches. At the same time, he is a force in Lutheranism as 1) president (since 1944) of the United Lutheran Church in America, 2) member of the Executive Committee of the National Lutheran Council, and 3) first American ever elected president of the 50-million-member Lutheran World Federation. All these titles illustrate one fact...
...other church; with Roberts' Rules of Order at his fingertips and a mind like an I.B.M. machine, he seems able to get purposeful action out of the most unpromising assembly. When he presided at the opening session of the constituting convention of the National Council of Churches in 1950, he insisted on no fewer than 44 amendments to the proposed constitution before permitting the United Lutherans to join. One lady delegate, sinking into her seat after missing one of the sessions, whispered to her neighbor: "What do the Lutherans want now?" Says a Lutheran colleague...
President Fry's schedule from last December through the middle of February was fairly typical: the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches...