Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beginning with the Freshman class entering college in September, 1927, the class list will be prepared on the completion of the June session of the College Entrance Board Examinations. Final candidates will not be allowed to take the September examinations. The September session will be retained, however, for preliminary applicants...
This fact was clearly illustrated last week, when a one-third minority refused to ratify the-Lausanne Treaty between the U. S. and Turkey. The vote was 50 (all Republicans) to 34 (all Democrats) ? six less than the necessary two-thirds majority. In executive session behind closed doors, debate had fumed intermittently for more than a fortnight. Senator Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Administration backed the treaty; Senator King, sharp-tongued Mormon from Utah, and his band of Democrats fought it on the grounds that it fails to carry out Woodrow Wilson's plan...
...Industries Board, and subsequently as a member of the General Staff in Washington, and as Assistant Chief of Staff. In 1923, he was elected to the Ohio State Senate where he has served two consecutive terms. He was recently elected to a third, and during the coming session of 1927 will serve as Floor Leader. Since the War, he has been closely identified with the American Legion organization. At the time of the Harvard Endowment drive he was appointed a member of the committee representing the northeastern part of Ohio...
Seven weeks ago, Secretary of State Kellogg was pleased to hear that Senor Adolfo Diaz had been elected President of Nicaragua by that republic's congress in joint session. With startling speed he sent U. S. recognition to President Diaz, a Conservative, an oldtime friend of the U. S. Department of State, who was recently employed by a U. S. mining company for a few dollars per week. Headline readers in the U. S. said: "Isn't it nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew...
Alabama. Governor-elect Bibb Graves shares the office of Governor William W. Brandon, famed poker player with a faithful Negro servant (TIME, Dec. 6), for the 20 days preceding the inauguration on Jan. 17. They both wish to watch the legislature's special session. Never before has Alabama had sharing Governors...