Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teeming earth have chosen to regulate their liberties and decree their tabus?the Interparliamentary Union. Gatherings of diplomats from half the countries of the world are fairly common, and assemblages of executive heads, premiers, dictators and Presidents are not unknown. But the lawmakers of the world generally remain in a magnificent isolation from international contacts. The Interparliamentary Union is the great exception. In Paris, on Oct. 31, 1888, a few French and British legislators assembled unofficially to promte the cause of international arbitration treaties. They decided however, to treat of other matters as well, and invite the legislative representatives...
...Rhine for tht first time since the World War, President von Hindenburg "beheld with emotion this stream of our destiny" and cried: "It was ours as long as we were united; we lost it when discord divided us ... The Rhine must forever be an admonition to Germans to remain united...
...plaza, in the Palacio Nacional,* President Calles gave first a reception and then a ball. At midnight the festivities abated for an instant. President Calles stepped out upon the central balcony of the palace and pulled a cord which is pulled by every President of Mexico who manages to remain in office until a 16th of September. Boomed forth "The Liberty Bell? of Mexico." Cried Senor Calles "Viva Mejico!" The official celebration came to an end. Not so the ball...
...Shipping Board had been created in 1916 as a semi-judicial and regulative body. With our entrance into the War it was supplemented by a sort of get-down-to-business department?the Emergency Fleet Corporation, which was to have the direct administration of the Government Merchant Marine but remain subservient to the parent Board...
...last week's meet lack the traditional presence of onetime Attorney General George W. Wickersham, solicitous that the Bar Association remain faithful to the World Court and other instrument? of world peace...