Word: moot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took just 30 seconds for the Supreme Soviet, Russia's moot parliament, to dispose of the absent Deputy for the Moscow district of Kalinin. In two swift, silent shows of 1,400 hands, without a single dissent or abstention, the assemblage in the Kremlin ratified Nikita Khrushchev's dismissal by the party Presidium last October as First Party Secretary and Premier. But except for a change in style, the Khrushchev spirit was very much present...
...John R. Moot '43, the other co-chairman, expects the MDC to transplant ninety trees and tear down seven this fall...
...Minutemen intend to delay the destruction of the area until January, when they will seek legislation to halt construction of three underpasses on the Drive. "The trees," Moot said, "are only symbolic of the recreation space being destroyed and the taxpayers money being wasted...
...Minutemen are finding various hours when Bernays and Moot expect ways to while away the long cold hours between sunrise and 7 a.m., the MDC to strike because there is little traffic on the Drive and few people besides Minutemen around. Malcolm E. Peaboy, Jr. '50 runs. Sheldon Diets '41 writes poetry...
...official statement came in response to a telegram sent Monday to Volpe and his Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Francis X. Bellotti, by Edward L. Bernays and John R. Moot, co-chairmen of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive. The message reminded the candidates of the great expense involved in constructing the underpasses and of the irreplaceable recreation playgrounds their construction would destroy. It also urged that they support legislation to block their construction...