Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rotund and glossy Argentine Delegate Honorio Pueyrredon was first to potently outpop. His vastly rich and extensively land owning family enable him to flout whom he will with impunity. At the first session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, in Geneva, he arose and stalked out when Argentine interests seemed threatened. He stands high in the ranks of the strong, opposition, "Radical" party of Argentina. He has maintained himself as Ambassador at Washington by sheer prestige and almost in despite of Argentine President Marcelo de Alvear...
...grandest of grandstand plays to convince the electorate that he alone is of sufficiently tough presidential timber to stand up for Argentina, even against the U. S. With Outpopper Pueyrredon thus self-eliminated, the treaty reorganizing the Pan-American Union was submitted in innocuous form to the plenary session of the Conference...
...Three resolutions condemning various phases of immigration restriction were adopted by the Conference in plenary session, last week. After each was read out, a U. S. Delegate, Henry Prather Fletcher, able U. S. Ambassador to Italy, rose and announced that the U. S. reserves to itself the right of determining its own "purely domestic" immigration policy without reference to any international authority whatever...
...Final and titanic outpopping occurred on the eve of adjournment, last week, when Foreign Minister of Salvador Dr. Don Jose Gustavo Guerrero broke an agreement arrived at in committee not to present to the plenary session a resolution condemning intervention-such as that of the U. S. in Nicaragua...
When the delegates had assembled for a routine plenary session, Dr. Guerrero suddenly leaped to his feet and moved a resolution as follows: "Resolved: That no state shall intervene in the internal affairs of another...