Word: conferences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of a Faculty ruling last December, the '47 graduation will also mark the first time in 30 years that the University will confer only A.B. degrees on candidates from the College...
Commencement itself will follow the traditional pattern, being opened in Tercentenary Theater by the High Sheriff of Middlesex County. After convocation and a musical interlude, the Commencement Parts will be delivered by outstanding graduating scholars, and President Conant will confer the degrees by token to the various class marshals...
...Ferguson had a plan. Senator Wayne Morse had a plan. Various witnesses had plans. On the other side of Congress, various Representatives had plans. New York's freshman Senator Irving Ives, a longtime student of labor relations, proposed that House and Senate set up a joint committee to confer with management and union leaders and "work out a program helpful to everyone." The legislative hopper began to look like Mrs. Peterkin's cup of coffee, into which she accidentally put salt (in Lucretia P. Hale's Peter kin Papers'). Family and friends added one ingredient after...
Last week, with the most ticklish problems of post-war reconstruction still unresolved, President Truman stated that he felt his making a trip abroad to confer with the heads of the other Big Three Powers would not be worth the trouble involved. This rather categorical assertion raises the whole question of the relation between Big Three amity and world peace...
Mine Coal With Bayonets? Also swinging a cane, wearing a Florida tan, President Truman stepped out of his plane and went to the White House to confer with his advisers. Harry Truman, who had made the decisions which had precipitated the battle and had directed it step by step, faced the most suspenseful week of his year and a half in office. Men close to him said that he was determined not to give...