Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister of Education C. P. Trevelyan, Laborite, offered a motion (defeated by 255 to 133 votes- majority of 122) to transfer to Parliament the royal prerogative of concluding treaties with foreign powers upon the advice of the Cabinet. If the motion were defeated; the next Labor Government would see that it was carried, he said. The motion was designed to preclude secret treaties; but Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, stated that all treaties with foreign powers were even now registered in their entirety with the League of Nations...
Smith is one of the few University captains who was never a preparatory school star. He entered the University from Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was manager of the school basketball team. Upon entering college, he decided to transfer his activities from the managing to the playing end of the game, and he made good from the start. He was the star of his Freshman team, and he made the University five as a Sophomore...
...rule on the eligibility of transfer students in the university, which has come up for so much discussion, was considered by the committee. It was voted to ratify the proposed amendment of the rule so as to include all men who have played in the sport concerned in another college, whether they entered Harvard, Yale, or Princeton by examination or by credits earned at the other colleges. It was also voted under this rule, for purposes of the eligibility requirement, to consider track and cross-country running as the same sport...
...Greece, public opinion flew into a virulent huff. The Government sent a stiff note to Turkey, charging that country with a flagrant breach of engagements entered into under treaties affecting Grece. It was further alleged by the Greek Government that the Mixed Commission, which is overseeing the transfer of Greek and Turk to their respective lands, have decided that the Patriarch was unexchangeable*. Acting President Paul Koundouriotis canceled a diplomatic reception. As a sign of grief, Parliament was adjourned. Conscripts of the 1923 class, whose disbandment was ordered, were commanded to stay with the colors. War murmurs were...
London. The transfer of Ambassador Frank Billings Kellogg from London to the State Department sets up a train of consequences in the diplomatic service. After but a few days' suspense for the hopefuls who would have liked to have followed in the diverse footsteps of Messrs. Page, Davis, Harvey and Kellogg, the President announced the name of Alanson B. Houghton as Mr. Kellogg's successor...