Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting Thursday, the routine of the news and photographic work will be outlined, and the rules of the competition explained in detail...
...until 1919 he was Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Balfour. Then President Wilson secured his appointment as Secretary General to the League of Nations, and he created and organized the entire Secretariat, which has not a little influence as the permanently functioning mechanism which must handle without friction the detail work of the League...
...less than 120 hopelessly conflicting amendments were offered and howled down by everyone not of the faction interested. At length M. Painlevé called for a tentative "vote of confidence" by offering a motion to close the general debate and begin debate upon the provisions of the bill in detail...
...palms were for M. Painlevé. Two hundred and fifty more or less clenched fists were against him. Once more the Radicals and Socialists had held together sufficiently to allow the Government to continue in office. Amid cheers and imprecations the debate upon the articles of the new scheme in detail got under way and threatened to continue...
...continue, however. Before the Deputies had considered even half the bill in detail, it was obvious that an utter impasse had been reached. Despairing, M. Painlevé saw his measure go down by the slender margin of 275 to 278 when a vote was taken on the the much criticized Fifth Article, envisioning a virtual moratorium on the short-term Treasury bonds falling due next month (TIME...