Word: session
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Regular business on the agenda of the present league session will include the election by the council and assembly of two world court judges, and election by the assembly only of three minor nations to nonpermanent seats on the council...
Chancellor Streeruwitz, until recently an active businessman (textiles), listened uncomfortably to the anxious shopkeepers, then called a conference of his Ministers. From this Cabinet session came an announcement that "the misgiving noted in economic circles at home and alarming reports in the newspapers lack justification." It was announced that in the future Schutzbund and Heimwehr demonstrations will not be allowed in the same city on the same...
...possessed a horse and gun (or even a pony and pitchfork) was galloping at her heels to join Budennevskaya Kon-armia (Budenny's Horsemen). Only last year, when the Soviet Congress was discussing a project for electrification of certain provincial cities, Commander Budenny strode in and stampeded the session by shouting: "What is all this talk of 'electrification?' What we need is 'horsification!' Give me enough horses for the Army!" On the Chino-Russian front last week Commander Budenny had "enough" horses and cavalrymen ? 30,000 according to one despatch...
...dusted in the dormitories, wiped the windows, made the beds last week to room properly about 500 foreign physiologists and their families who joined with about the same number of U. S. and Canadian physiologists in the 13th International Physiological Congress. The congressmen met for a first get-together session in Harvard's Memorial Hall's fusty, amphitheatrical Sanders Theatre, with twilight filtering on them through stained glass. William Henry Howell, scholar, researcher and executive, had the honor of being the Congress president. No one grudged him the position for Dr. Howell, 69, director of Johns Hopkins school of hygiene...
...Shore clubwoman). Director is Stanley Hart White, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. Students are picked yearly from the architectural schools of five Midwestern institutions-Iowa State College, the universities of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Armour Institute of Technology (Chicago). They study in the summer session under architects of the Chicago region, on the campus of Lake Forest College. Thus far difficulty has been encountered finding really able candidates for instruction. Most Midwestern architectural students feel the need of going to old-established-and foreign-influenced-schools such as Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, and spending their summers...