Word: plenum
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Under the impetus, of this attack, Harvard Apathy would die. Caldwell Titcomb's baroque national anthem, and the Ibis, national bird, would lead the Nation from lethargy to triumph. E unibus plenum...
Died. Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara, 72, Archbishop of Lima, Roman Catholic Primate of Peru and the sixth member of the Sacred College of Cardinals to die this year (leaving it six short of its plenum of 70); of a heart attack after long illness with cancer; in Lima...
...names waited for a meeting of the Moscow district of the Communist Party last week. In the marble Hall of Columns in the House of Unions, once a nobleman's club, 2,000 party members heard Nikolai Mikhailov, Moscow district party leader, read out the communiques of the Plenum and the Presidium. One of Communism's great wolves had fallen, and the lesser wolves were tearing at his carcass. Reported Tass: "Speakers at the meeting spoke in wrathful indignation of the foul enemy of the party and the Soviet people-the international imperialist agent Beria," and the audience...
...tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, the Sacred College of Cardinals may number 70 prelates. But until two years ago it was always short of this plenum by at least three or four members. Reason was that, should a Pope die suddenly, his successor might wish immediately to make cardinals of his best friends and working associates. Impatient of tradition, Pope Pius XI brought the Sacred College up to 69 two years ago. Continuing a policy of creating cardinals as deaths occurred in the College, the Holy Father last week let it be announced that he would award five...
...When the card system was initiated," said Russia's Premier, ''our enemies prophesied the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Government. Subsequent events have laughed at these prophecies. I can now inform you that the plenum of the Central Executive Committee of the Party, at the personal instance of Comrade Stalin, has voted to abolish bread cards, effective...