Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statement. Chancellor Churchill declared publicly: "The Government would never have secured passage for the bill extending the hours of mine labor from seven to eight (TIME, July 12) had they known that the owners would thereupon refuse to discuss a national wage settlement. The Government never thought for a moment that opening the door* for district settlements meant shutting it in the face of a national settlement. We wish both doors to be open and settlements to be achieved through both...
...Europe they came, thousands of chemists, to his favorite city, Philadelphia. They flocked to the meeting of the American Chemical Society, founded 50 years ago at Northumberland, Pa., at the home of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), discoverer of oxygen (TIME, Sept. 6). They were chemists who would discuss problems far more complex than charging a Leyden wet cell with current from an electrical storm conducted by a kite-string...
World Court Parley. Representatives of the World Court adherent nations met at Geneva in the International Labor Building to discuss the reservations of the U. S. Senate respecting U. S. adherence to the World Court (TIME, Feb. 8, 1925). Originally this meeting was called under League auspices (TIME, March 29) but U. S. League opponents have raised such an uproar that the delegates thought it wiser not to meet in the comfortable and vacant League of Nations Palace. No action was taken on the Senate's reservations last week...
...burgesses. Agobard, Archbishop of Lyons, was moved as early as 836 to discuss the situation in a scathing paragraph: "The actors, the mimes, and the deceiving and infamous joculators are given money to get drunk on, while the poor of the Church are dying in the agonies of hunger " It was a pretty pass. People, apparently, would rather hear some pinchbeck fellow gurgle a roulade than listen to the best constructed sermon. When, therefore, the guildsmen of prosperous towns began to give simple dramas, inspired by the magnificent theatricality of Mass, and evolved from Bible story, prelates everywhere came gradually...
...news gatherers. They are greeted by beaming President Harry A. Garfield of Williams College. For the space of a lunar month they constitute The Institute of Politics. Last week President Garfield opened the proceedings of the Institute as chairman for the sixth time, benevolently urged 300 delegates assembled for discussion to discuss. Present and discursive were: Paul Harvey, onetime editor of the one-time International Interpreter, who popped a revisional proposal for the Dawes Plan; Sir Frederick Whyte, onetime president of the Indian Legislative Assembly, who ridiculed "the menace of Asia" to the Occident; Far Eastern expert and publicist Henry...