Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Connecticut, normally Republican and Republican in November, is expected to elect Mr. Bingham. On Dec. 30, the official canvass of the votes of the special election will be made. On Jan. 7, Mr. Bingham ceases to be Lieutenant Governor and becomes Governor. If elected on the 16th of December, Mr. Bingham, according to Connecticut law, must take office as Senator within 20 days of his official notification (immediately following the official canvass on Dec. 30). He is expected to deliver his inaugural message as Governor on Jan. 7, enter his resignation within two weeks and assume the toga within...
...little later, the legal limit was reduced to .5%. The Bureau of Internal Revenue still undertook the business of enforcement. There was no longer any revenue to be derived from a tax on alcoholic beverages, but the Bureau handled the taxes and regulations on alcohol for industrial uses. A special unit was then set up by the Bureau to undertake the increased labor of enforcing the .5% restriction...
...seniority, heads the official Diplomatic list published by the State Department; he takes precedent at social functions; he is the first diplomat to receive the official call of a newly arriving Ambassador; he heads the diplomatic corps as a body on ceremonial occasions; and, in emergency or under special circumstances, he is spokesman of the corps...
...infringed on the autonomous liberty of action of any of the member churches; it rejoiced that it had been effective in giving weight and publicity to the views which all its member churches shared on moral welfare and the importance of religion. In 1917, a memorable special session united the churches on the War. In 1920, it met at Cleveland, received Protestant representatives from many countries, pointed to its expanded activities in war and peace, took over the moral authority of the expiring Inter-Church Movement, found itself indisputably an institution of great pitch and moment...
Today, the Federal Council spends about $300,000 annually-a paltry sum. Its paltriness is significant. And even two-thirds of this is spent, not on its self, but on special work, such as its Commissions on Race Relations, on International Goodwill, on Temperance. And even this comes more by large private donations than from the constituent member churches. Thus the Council is in no sense a superchurch. It has no power over any church. It has no long pay roll. It has no material interests. It does not cost much because: (Definition) the council is simply a voice...