Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gathering and of a need for more intensive deliberations, Superintendent P. H. Claxton of Tulsa, Okla., proposed that next year's voting delegates be reduced to a band of 500, plus officers; representation to be in ratio with N. E. A. state memberships. The convention pondered his idea...
...follows to the 71-year-old Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich in Paris (TIME, April 19, 1926) : "Monseigneur: The Russian Congress, which unites all the patriots aspiring to the re-establishment of the Russian nation, acclaims in the person of your Imperial Highness the foreordained representative of the nationalist idea as well as the glorious supreme chief of the army and defender of the fatherland since the first days of our Calvary...
...statement of M. Stalin. Did he really fear an invasion by the Grand Duke Nikolai? A likely hypothesis seemed to be that Dictator Stalin was talking chiefly for home consumption. He and the Communist party cannot fail to benefit by the growing up among the Russian masses of an idea that the Communist regime alone stands as their defender against an "Alliance" headed by Great Britain...
...people is comparatively recent. The late Rev. Francis E. Clark, who died last May, founded it Feb. 2, 1881, at his Williston Congregational Church in Portland, Me. Members were obliged to pledge themselves to attend weekly prayer meetings of their local society. So sound was Dr. Clark's idea that 80 evangelical religious denominations have sponsored the movement. It has societies in 60 different countries; has more than 3,500,000 members. Of these members 20,000 went to Cleveland last week...
...patrons of the French Opera Comique last season was Paul E. Poitras (brierwood importer). To him occurred the idea of building an apartment-hotel with 1,000 rooms, enough to yield an income for the support of light opera to be staged in the same building. The money for the enterprise must be raised among music patrons. While Mr. Poitras is in France, the work of incorporating and financing is handled in part by Erik Huneker, son of the late James Gibbons Huneker, famed music critic of the Sun, Times, World. To James Gibbons Huneker is attributed the remark "Nothing...