Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese Eastern Railway (cause of all the strife); withdrawal of the Soviet army from Manchuria; mutual release of civilian and military prisoners; mutual reopening of consulates; a formal conference at Moscow, Jan. 25, to settle all questions still under dispute. World chancelleries took note, awaited word of the Moscow agenda...
Other items on the Chafee-Pollak agenda: Illegal suppression of free speech, lawless police interference in strikes and labor mass meetings, illegitimate espionage by Federal agents, use of the Third Degree, illegal methods employed by city police departments during "crime drives...
Regular business on the agenda of the present league session will include the election by the council and assembly of two world court judges, and election by the assembly only of three minor nations to nonpermanent seats on the council...
When they assembled, their agenda looked politically nonexplosive. Gov. Roosevelt of New York was down for a talk on "Cooperation of Governors on Crime Problems." Maine's Gov. William Tudor Gardiner was to speak on "Employment of Prisoners," Carolina's Gov. Oliver Max Gardner on "Youthful Prisoners," Virginia's Gov. Harry Flood Byrd on "The Segregation Plan of Taxation" and North Dakota's Gov. George F. Shafer on "The Gasoline Tax." It looked like poor pickings for newsmen assigned to cover the conference...
...expanded the commission-in-investigation idea far beyond the limits of Prohibition. He proposed then to go into the "entire question of law enforcement and organized justice." He tried to subordinate Prohibition in the inquiry, to make it only one of many elements to be scrutinized. To the agenda were added such matters as immigration violations, the jury system, anti-trust statutes, court procedure, narcotics, general disrespect for Law. In the President's re-explanations of the investigation, Prohibition dwindled almost out of sight...