Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Extremely welcome and gratifying . . . permit us to do a service of greatest importance ... a service we have long wanted to perform," said Albert Thomas, the League's Labor Office Director...
...Prince de Ligne . . . was to have been expected. His training, temperament and fixed attitude are all such as to make it impossible for him to be useful to his government as envoy to Washington. . . . The Belgian Government could have searched the kingdom without finding an individual more unsuited to perform the duties which the Prince de Ligne was expected to perform and in which he has so signally failed...
Democratic policy is now left to the Democratic Senators who are expected to perform a political miracle equal to Mr. Raskob's financial one by developing harmonious issues as they debate their way through the questions before the Congress. At present, intraparty schisms on prohibition, power, taxation, tariff, farm relief, are nowhere more deep and durable than on the left-hand side of the U. S. Senate chamber...
...program includes a sonata for pianoforte played by Jesus Maria Sanroma, soloist of the Boston Symphony, and a series of five odes of Horace for mixed chorus by the University Double Quartet and the Wellesley College Choir. The Durrell Quartet will perform the string quartet, "The Wind in the Willows," and the composer at the piano will render his suite for pianoforte...
...Boston League of Nations Association, which has offered to support a permanent secretariat, is an asset that will insure a certain amount of stability in the organization. This secretariat with undoubtedly perform the tiresome routine necessary to the mobilization of the various independent college organizations, and will pave the way to well planned, smoothly executed assemblies...