Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...29th session of the Council of the League of Nations opened at Geneva, Switzerland. Among the agenda...
...days later, on the closing day of the session, Mr. La Follette called up his resolution. Senator James A. Reed proposed to amend it by enlarging the scope of the investigation to include candidates for Senator. The Senate agreed to the amendment. The resolution was put to the "ayes" and "nays" and was passed without a dissenting vote...
...plenary session of the Anglo-Russian Conference was to have been held in London during the past week, but was suddenly canceled at the request of Christian Rakovsky, Russian Charge d'Affaires in London and head of the Bolshevik delegation to the Conference...
...Chicago, the American Medical Association opened its annual session. There were diagnostic clinics and exhibits on the Municipal Pier, and the House of Delegates (representative: body) met in the assembly room at the headquarters of the Association on North Dearborn Street...
...opening general meeting, Dr. William Allen Pusey, emeritus professor of diseases of the skin in the University of Illinois, was inaugurated, having been made President-elect at the San Francisco session in 1923. In his President's address Dr. Pusey attacked socialization of the medical profession. The ancient responsibility of the profession?treat-ing the sick and injured?rather than reforms by organization, wholesale medical programs and government spoonfeeding, was held up as an ideal. President Coolidge was commended by Dr. Pusey for his "wise statesmanship" in "taking a definite stand against federal support" of a wide range of socialized...