Word: organ
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator and Wife dwell with their only child in rooms of spartan simplicity within the frowning, huge-walled Kremlin. No Soviet news organ, magazine or book is permitted to reveal personal news of this seclusive Caesar's wife...
General Currie sued for $50,000 libel damages when a prominent news organ, the Port Hope Guide, charged last June that on the day the World War Armistice was signed (Nov. 11, 1918) there was "deliberate and useless waste of human life at [the capture of] Mons [by Canadian troops] for the glorification of the Canadian Headquarters Staff." This and supplemental statements were generally taken to mean that even after General Currie had knowledge of the signing of the Armistice he ordered Canadian troops into an action during which several were killed on Armistice...
...founders of the Student Council probably intended that it should primarily be an organ of student government. But the days of student government, at Harvard certainly, are past. Students are too disorganized, too interested in their individual pursuits, intellectual or otherwise, to need or support any machinery of undergraduate government. Nor can the Student Council properly be regarded as a convenient instrument for the execution of faculty discipline. If the faculty is to pass judgment on any individual or group at Harvard, the students would much rather have it execute such judgment itself than through any group of undergraduates...
...this reason make the existence of a representative essential. If relations should become strained between Harvard and one of its traditional rivals, if certain students were guilty of conduct unworthy of their Harvard affiliation in these and similar emergencies it might well be highly desirable that an official undergraduate organ voice the authoratative opinion of the whole undergraduate body. For the effective fulfillment of this purpose one factor is essential; the ability to act quickly and decisively. Emergencies cannot be handled if postal cards must be sent out, a meeting held, lengthy discussion indulged in and a vote cast before...
...same morning as the World's editorial, the New York Herald Tribune, outstanding G. O. P. organ in the East, stoutly stated in its leading editorial: "The Hoover campaign continues to make steady progress over a wide territory...