Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across to the Island, took charge. His name is Benjamin M. Day, by profession a downtown lawyer, by inclination a onetime president of the Young Men's Republican Club. Said Major Curran: "Ben Day is an honest, able fellow!" Lawyer Day said that, as he had never made a special study of immigration matters, "it would be absurd for me to discuss plans...
...crisp official envelope was posted at Geneva. Soon it was bobbing across the waves to Washington. Inclosed was an invitation from the League of Nations requesting the U. S. Government to send a representative to Geneva on Sept. 1. There and then will meet a special conference of the 48 nations adherent to the World Court, at which the reservations passed by the U. S. Senate (TIME, Feb. 8, CONGRESS) as the conditions upon which the U. S. will adhere to the World Court will be considered...
...Citizens of the U. S. favorable to the League of Nations recalled a statement of Sir Austen Chamberlain that the special Court conference is a mere common sense measure designed to get swift action upon the U. S. Senate's reservations by the nations already adherent to the World Court...
...Harvard will take a special pride in the success of the Congress, not only because of her high reputation as a seat of philosophical inquiry, but because of her eager desire to contribute in all possible ways both to the discovery and spread of truth, and to the promotion of world-wide good will...
...above is a sample of the plans for shore trips. There will be many interesting variations. such as a cross country race on donkeys from the great Wall of China to the Ming Tombs, and special performances of the opera at Vienna and Paris...