Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theories from the part of Power. Cannily watching the situation and holding a salutary whip hand are a group of enlightened Conservatives who are adding to the 61 pink votes their own and thus giving the new Cabinet a slim majority. As Premier the pinks have put forward former Speaker of the Storting, Christopher Hornsrud, veteran of many a stormy debate...
...bill to penalize the use of certain traps and other devices for the capture of fur-bearing animals, camp up for a hearing at the State House yesterday, and Commander Breck was the chief speaker in a heated argument. Backing up his statement more definitely, he told the CRIMSON reporter that after studying the subject carefully for three years, and collecting data from every source, he could now announce that approximately 100,000,000 dumb animals were being slaughtered in agony every year...
...system of having more conferences with candidates and fewer tryouts on the speaker's platform will be in use in the new competitions it was announced by E. M. Rowe 1L., Debating team coach...
...president of another university remarked some time ago that one of the impediments to be avoided by such an institution was that of traditions; to which the reply was made that there was one tradition of which the speaker would doubtless approve, and that was the tradition of frequent change. We certainly have that tradition here, for we have been continually making experiments, and we hope wise ones. We have, indeed, some reason to suppose so, because they are being made in a definite direction with a constant object. That object, so far as the students are concerned...
Signers of the appeal were President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker of the House José Tous Soto. Cabled they: "Ours is the only Spanish-American country whose voice is not heard in Havana during the Pan-American Conference. . . . Justice, nothing but, justice, is what we ask as citizens of America, as faithful Christians and as children of Almighty God, who gave to us the same inalienable rights which your great republic knew how to invoke when declaring for independence at the memorable Philadelphia Convention...