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...President should report annually to the Congress on steps he has taken to implement laws and resolutions passed by Congress during its previous session. The President and his Cabinet officers would then submit to questions put by a joint select committee of both houses of Congress...
Voters from the seventh and eighth wards will also caucus tomorrow at Phillips Brooks House to select their delegates to the district caucus...
...Harvard, Nickerson joined the Hasty Pudding, the Owl Club, one of the less prestigious final clubs, and the Stylus Club ("a very select drinking club," he recalls...
...courtly, imposing figure, given to Olympian judgments. A longtime associate characterized him as "something of a grandee." Nearly everyone called him Mr. Krock. During 66 years as a journalist, Arthur Krock was the confidant-and quite often the prickly conscience-of the select and powerful in Washington. The mighty talked to him trustingly as a friend or warily as a critic, but almost always they talked...
...competition for those prizes that require submitted work, as opposed to cumulative academic achievement. An official in the prize office said that most of the essay contests that her office oversaw this year drew under 10 competitors. The problem may be one of access for the whole community: A select few students compete for costly rewards. Or it may be benign: Few students--men or women--are interested in competing for essay prizes. Or it may pertain specifically to the status of women in the University...