"There's a delegation of reporters outside, sir," he said.

A page brought in the word that a delegation of men were waiting to be heard.

What is contemplated is a delegation of authority.

There was also a big delegation of "St. Johnnies," as the gray-clad young men from St. John's College are called.

They were told that the Peace Conference had already heard the official delegation of India on this question.

Oglethorpe goes to Charlestown, South Carolina, to open his CommissionComes back to SavannahGives encouragement to the PlantersReturns to FredericaExcursion to CowetaForms a Treaty with the Upper CreeksReceives at Augusta a delegation of the Chickasaws and Cherokees, who complain of having been poisoned by the TradersOn his return to Savannah is informed of Spanish aggressions, and is authorized to make reprisals, CHAPTER XIV.

They evidently thought the King's mind was gone as well as his head, for they proposed a delegation of the Royal authority.

He was appointed member of the Delegation of Justice on the twentieth of April.

I had selected a delegation of the most influential chiefs to attend the contemplated council.

Governor C. informs me (April 10th) that he will proceed to Green Bay, to attend the contemplated treaty on the Fox River, and that I am expected to be there with a delegation of the Chippewas from the midlands, on the sources of the Ontonagon, Wisconsin, Chippewa, and Menominie rivers.

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith to the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, an article of agreement made on the 13th day of June, 1854, by William H. Garrett, agent on the part of the United States, and a delegation of Creek Indians, supplementary to the Creek treaty of 1838.

The town sends to the wider government a delegation of persons who can represent the town and its people.

Not only did many civil officials, voicing public opinion in their island communities, urge that the supply of negro slaves be greatly increased as a means of preventing industrial collapse, but a delegation of Jeronimite friars and the famous Bartholomeo de las Casas, who had formerly been a Cuban encomendero and was now a Dominican priest, appeared in Spain to press the same or kindred causes.

The virtue or vice of the system, as with the gang alternative, depended upon its use by a diligent master or its abuse by an excessive delegation of responsibility.

Satire is lavished upon misdirected education (28), the sluttishness of London landladies, self-adoring Art on a pedestal (256), the delegation of children to underlings, sham religiosity (229), the pampered conscience of a diffident student, and the mensonge of modern woman (300), typified by the ruddled cast-off of Redgrave, who plays first, in her shrivelled paint, as procuress, and then, in her naked hideousness, as blackmailer.

That Mrs. Moore has been appreciated is borne out by the fact that when she travelled from town to town she used to be met at the station by a brass band or by a delegation of prominent citizens.

" On February 2, 1914, a delegation of women called upon President Wilson to ascertain his views.

Nyoda accompanied a delegation of police and witnesses in a motor boat to the foot of the tower and showed them the bent-out bars and the very place where they had jumped into the water, and later they raided the house from the land side.

Soon afterwards a delegation of chiefs from the Seneca tribe of the Iroquois arrived at Fort Pitt, and sent a message to the President, complaining of the murder of these alleged friendly Indians.

A delegation of the citizens of Atchison visited Leavenworth after the arrests had been made, to confer with General Blunt, the commander of the District, on the best means of securing order.

Delegation of legislative power (see Three Functions of Government).

While, however, it is thus distinctly understood that the power of the teacher is supreme, that all the power rests in him, and that he alone is responsible for its exercise, there ought to be a very free and continual delegation of power to the pupils.

The delegation of diplomacy will manage and conduct negotiations with foreign cabinets with a view to the recognition of the belligerency and independence of the Philippines.

I wished that a delegation of strikers could have heard it. . . . . . . .

A delegation of the "tax refusers" had come to Copenhagen, where the political pot was boiling hot over the incident.