Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...award him 200 points. His team finished the match 120 points ahead. Thereupon began a series of protests and counterprotests that rocked the tournament and culminated next day in a conference of five of contract's highest authorities to decide the dispute. After an hour-and-a-half session, during which it was established that Mr. McPherran had erred in speaking but Mr. Barnes had no business believing him, the committee voted three-to-two in Mr. McPherran's favor. Exhausted by its emotional ordeal, Mr. McPherran's team was defeated in the final round...
...major nations except Russia belonged to the International Bureau of Expositions. When the Bureau decided on only a limited participation in the fair, President Whalen blandly returned to Manhattan, presently announced that Russia would build a $4,000,000 pavilion. Unwilling to play second fiddle in any swing session of propaganda, the other nations promptly upped their appropriations. In the event of war or peace this might be money well spent on improving public relations, attracting tourists or increasing exports...
...staged last fortnight by Stockholder Arthur C. Flatto, who popped up at the annual meeting (at which President Roy Barton White announced a 1938 loss of $1,637,000). Mr. Flatto declared he had proxies representing 250,000 shares and did not like the present management. After a stormy session (TIME, April 24), the meeting adjourned while the proxies were counted. Last week President White announced that the management slate received 531,812 votes, the Flatto opposition...
...confronted History 1 students yesterday morning when they tried to leave the New Lecture Hall after Professor Michael Karpovich's lecture on Italy. Some prankster, suspected to be of Freshman origin, had passed shackles through the handles of the Building's great oaken doors during the 9 o'clock session, thus virtually imprisoning 400 men at a stroke. After the first panic several bulky upperclassmen broke the portals to kindling-wood, and the assembly surged through the splinters to freedom...
Princeton's Grecian Whig Hall was the scene Saturday afternoon of the final plenary session of the fourth annual H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs, as undergraduate leaders summed up before 125 delegates the round table discussions of the previous two days...