Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Third Commission of the Assembly, which had been studying the problem, has been snowed under by con- flicting compacts, resolutions and covenants. He suggested, there- fore, that the Commission should remain at work doing nothing more than preparing a program for the Preparatory Disarmament commission, due to meet in November...
...parliamentary government to Spain; actually it does no more than centralize the legislature in the hands of Primo himself. Its temper is typical of the revolt against democracy; its obvious aims are to institute a more efficient government, perhaps to emulate the Platonic conception of the state, modified to meet modern needs; but it goes no further than to cloak constitutionality with the mantle of despotism...
...most part they will work in committees, the functions of which will be purely advisory. A full assembly will meet for the last week in each month in six-hour sessions. Members will have full liberty of expression and freedom of speech, but no subject may be discussed for more than three hours, no speech may be longer than 20 minutes. All press reports of the assembly meetings will be subject to the censorship of Prime's Directorate...
...half year Trade in the Far East and in the second half year Trade in Latin America. The former course will be given by Professor G. B. Roorbach, who has just returned from a year's study of trade and economic conditions in the Far East. The class will meet on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from 12 to 1 o'clock. Application for admission should be made to the Business School office and should contain a statement of the applicant's business experience and the firm by whom he is employed...
...beers, bullets and billets, play parts in the past of these two halls. Massachusetts, the older of the pair and the oldest building now standing in the University, has perhaps the less eventful history. It was erected in 1720 at the expense of the Province of Massachusetts to meet the demands of the housing problem. Complaint was made that "a considerable number of students were obliged to take lodgings in the town of Cambridge for want of accomodations in the College", and to please the collegiate commuters of the day, the building was erected substantially as it now stands. Used...