Word: recession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assignment in reading and the prospect of the examinations in the immediate future will be sufficient stimulus to keep the undergraduates working. The various departments of the University are to decide for themselves whether the suggestion will be put into effect and the provision is also made that the recess will not apply to freshman courses...
...anti-cigaret law (TIME, Jan. 31), a law prohibiting marriage for the physically unfit and a bill repealing the blue law against Sunday movies. Last week the session came to an unexpected climax as legislators stirred drowsily in their seats in the Kansas senate chamber, waiting the noon recess. One Edgar Bennett, State Senator, rose, called up a resolution petitioning Congress to cut off Federal road aid. Yards away, one Ben Hegler protested, picked up the nearest object at hand, let fly with the eye and arm of a veteran baseballer. His colleague, Senator Bennett, ducked, startled; in the very...
...about as well qualified for that position as I would be for leader of the angelic choir." Last week Mr. Reed sought to extend his fame as an inquisitor, introduced in the Senate a resolution which would allow his committee to investigate all 1926 Senatorial elections during the recess of Congress (March to December). In the debate that followed, Senator Robinson of Indiana, Republican "yes" man, opened a vehement attack on Mr. Reed. "The Indiana investigation of Mr. Reed," said Mr. Robinson, "degenerated into a garbage wagon with the venerable Senator from Missouri in the front seat. . . . I recognize...
...production, as in the past, will be taken on tour during the spring recess. The opening in Northampton, at the Academy of Music' on Saturday, April 16, will be followed by a performance on April 21 at the Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia. This performance will be followed by a dance. The trip will close with a presentation at the Mecca Temple in New York on Friday evening, April 22. As last year, the performance will be followed by a cabaret, commencing March 28. Tickets will be on sale at the clubhouse, Herrick's and Leavitt and Peirce...
Court was adjourned until 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, Judge Chase estimating that all the cases would be finished before the luncheon recess...