Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Marshall's proposed 'Little Assembly' "might, ultimately have a tendency to force the U.S.S.R. out of the United Nations" by regularly "forcing the Soviet Union's hand," Report Emerson '21, professor of Government, told the second monthly study session of the U.N. Council last night...
Ever since Herbert Hoover retired from presidential business cycle prognostication to private life and Sunday supplement interviews, a lot of people including Herbert Hoover have been wondering why all this talent can't be put to better use. This issue will crystallize in the next session of Congress where an already drafted bill will be offered guaranteeing Hoover a steady job. The legislation cannot be assailed on party bias, however, because it would also keep Harry Truman out of haberdashery and on the floor of the Senate for good in the event of defeat...
...appearance of Richard and the other delegates will constitute only one phase of what is expected to be a jammed Council session tonight. Richard G. Axt '46, Council representative on the Alumni War Memorial Committee will officially present the war memorial Committee's recommendation...
...expect many fewer and much less attractive cakes and buns." He has eliminated all imports of U.S. tobacco, and faced a storm of protest over the ban on gasoline for pleasure driving. This issue brought the Labor Government close to defeat last week in Parliament: at a very late session, when many weary Laborites had gone home, the Tories called for a vote in which Labor squeaked through...
Rivera and Siqueiros once went to Moscow to attend a Comintern session. On the German ship coming home they began arguing: Siqueiros was for Stalin, Rivera was for Trotsky. No one else on the boat understood Spanish, but they all stared fascinated at the table where the two men sat, meal after meal, fighting it out with high words and bitter tears. Finally the two asked for separate tables and Rivera, shaken by the fury of the quarrel, took to his bunk. Says Siqueiros, "When we reached Veracruz there were two delegations at the pier. One was composed of Rivera...