Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even further in support of the present Mexican Government because the Government had shown "a willingness to live up to its international agreements"?that is, to protect U.S. citizens and property in Mexico. He said there was precedent for allowing Mexico to transport troops through the U.S. in order to make a concentration against the rebel forces in northwestern Mexico...
Everything seemed to be in order, and the letter?on stiffest crackliest paper with a large cerise seal?asked nothing more than that the Royal Siamese Government should recognize the new Republic of Slovakia, declared just to have been successfully proclaimed. Well, why not recognize Slovakia...
...grand dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow Wilson in drafting the Covenant of the League of Nations as Italian Foreign Minister (1919-20) ; today, in the 73rd year of his vigorous age, he is the personal and implicitly trusted diplomatic representative of Dictator Benito Mussolini. "Order!" rapped Chairman Vittorio Scialoja, as his judicial forbears have rapped for generations, and around the big U-shaped council table there came to order some 14 statesmen, including Europe's famed "Big Three": Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain); M. Aristide Briand (France); Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany). Almost at once it appeared...
...such a system of small duties to the professor is that they discourage thought. No forty-five minute quiz, no five page report offers a chance to think. The discharge of such duties resolves into a test of memory or an assembling of a number of encyclopaedic facts in order...
...provision of the Constitution is to be reconciled with the instrument as a whole. The word "adjourn" appears several times in the text. Less than a quorum "may adjourn from day to day." Neither House shall without the consent of the other "adjourn for more than three days." "Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President....." In case the Houses disagree "with Respect to the Time of Adjournment" the President "may adjourn them to such Time...