Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Months ago Mr. Hoover indicated that the Senate, during its short session next December, would be asked to vote U. S. adherence to the World Court. Even with the "Revision Protocol" blocked, adherence could be voted by the Senate with acceptance of the famed "Root Protocol," the two being parallel documents. But last week the President, far from whipcracking Cuba or preparing to wheedle the Senate, gave correspondents to understand that he plans postponement of the entire issue until next year...
Bachelor William Lyon Mackenzie King has been Prime Minister since 1921, except for an interval of three months when the Conservatives got in (TIME, July 5 to Sept. 27, 1926). Thus Mr. King and his Liberals parallel the U. S. Republican Party in their long tenure of Power. But they are more like U. S. Democrats in being free-traders with a wobble toward protection...
...second floor will be occupied by a large banking institution, and on the roof a large restaurant will be built with an outdoor promenade running around the entire building. This oval building will extend to a magnificent garden plaza that will be cut through the development and will run parallel with Fifth Avenue from 48th to 51st Streets . . . the most impressive boulevard of its kind in the world...
...apparatus of The European Union would function at Geneva, parallel with the League. Its "European Conference" would be a deliberative body similar to the League Assembly. For executive the Union would have a "political committee" resembling the League Council but with greater powers. The Union would have a president, automatically drawn in rotation from each member state...
...Scotchman with a nice Edinburghian taste for lore might set down in parallel columns the outstanding details of Mary Queen of Scots' wedding and Miss Anne Tyrrell...