Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ignore Utopia, thus offered on a platter, was impossible last week. Already resolutions endorsing the Soviet proposal had poured in from 124 prominent societies and political organizations in 13 countries. The Soviet Government had neatly placed the Commission in the difficult position of having to explain to the world why it could not favor "immediate and complete disarmament...
...gathering, in the German Sanatorium on the Mount of Olives, Dr. Mott looked about him with joy that burned in his eyes like fire. The game of going to Jerusalem was over now, and there was great work to be done. What this work was, he proceeded briefly to explain...
Political commentators in the U. S., notably the late Frank I. Cobb of the Dem ocratic New York World, have often urged responsible Cabinet Government for this country. In England, Cabinet executives are not only permitted, but are required by custom to go before Parliament to explain and defend bills proposed by the party in power. In the U. S., political parties can, and regularly do, evade responsibility by shifting it, as may be convenient, from executive to legislative or vice versa...
...irony, no derision, rather a compliment to his symphony audience was this paradoxical platitude, uttered patly last week by Ernest Henry Schelling, conductor the past season of the children's concerts of the Philharmonic Society. For months New York children had been watching & listening to tall Mr. Schelling explain familiarly the stories back of the music which his orchestra played for their edification. After each program they were asked to write down comments, such as children can make, in notebooks kept for the purpose...
...preparation for the mock convention to be held by the Democratic Club in May, Mayor Edward J. Quinn of Cambridge will speak at the Union tonight at 7.15 o'clock. His subject will be "Democratic Organization", and as a National Democratic Committeeman for Massachusetts, he will explain the preliminary organization of the party before such a convention. The mock convention will be similar to that held four years ago by the same organization. Delegates from all states will meet in the New Lecture Hall under the regular convention rules to nominate a candidate for President...