Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hibben thinks Beecher was guilty. Well, better men than he do not think so. His own church, after long and painstaking investigation, fully exonerated him. A jury failed to convict him. A congregational council of 200 earnest men acquitted him without a dissenting vote. His own wife knew him better than any scandalmongering writer, and she knew him to be guiltless...
Towards Negroes, the A. F. of L. remained unchanged, refusing again to vote Negroes an equal status with whites in U. S. unions...
...Eliot '53 was President of the University. Opinion was divided as to which policy should be pursued, and the issue gave rise to a great deal of discussion. The officers of the University considered the proposals made at that time, and finally the matter was put to a vote in a Board of Overseers meeting. The Overseers gave their approval to the four year plan as at present in force; that the three year case had many adherents among the members of the Board of that time, however, is proved by the fact that the new plan was defeated...
...members of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, with Doctor Nicholas Murray Butler at their head, would have the text modified, but as contributors of one-sixth the total sum, they have no controlling vote. Germany has remained silent, having in mind perhaps the ineffectuality of her, unofficial protest against the war memorial at Dinant, which depicts a German soldier holding aloft on his bayonet the body of a Belgian baby...
...large group from which to select the delegates. This league will meet once a month to discuss topics of international importance. At each meeting some professor or other authority will lead the discussion, give a 15-minute talk, and answer questions. At the close of each session a vote will be taken embodying the opinion of the council on the subject discussed...