Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation is considered from the point of view of the Governing Board of the Union, it is evident that this new system will make it possible to increase the efficiency in management. The fault of the present practice is not with the Graduate Secretaries, but with their other activities, which necessarily prevent them from devoting a sufficient amount of their time to the affairs of the Union. The new manager will be confined to one field, and will thus be able to be of greater use in his position. The traditions of the past may be destroyed but the increasing...
...With a view to insuring that the court shall not, without the consent of the United States, entertain any request for an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest, the Secretary General of the League of Nations shall, through any channel designated for the purpose by the United States, inform the United States of any proposal before the Council or Assembly of the League for obtaining an advisory opinion from the World Court and thereupon, if desired, an exchange of views as to whether an interest of the United States...
...position taken by President Cosgrave is that the Irish Free State will not recognize as competent to represent the British Crown any Council not composed exclusively of members of the Royal Family. The presence of such a politician as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin is, in the Irish Free State view, something not to be endured without the explicit and joint consent of all the British Dominions...
...illustrious and possibly the most devout of her warrior sons, the sole generalissimo who ever commanded ten million men in arms, the great and humble Catholic who reviewed his victory thus: "Without claiming the intervention of a miracle, I say that when, at a moment in history, a clear view is given to a man and he finds later that that clear view has determined movements of enormous consequences in the conduct of a formidable war−then I hold that that clear view, which I think I had in 1918, comes from a Providential Force in the hands...
...Union, Newcomb Carlton took up R.C.A.'s gage. Unimpressed by the wireless threat, he snapped: "The Radio Corporation has nothing we now wish to use, and if we ever need anything they have, we can get it from other sources. For the time being, at least, we will view the disposal of the Radio Corporation as an interesting scientific development...