Word: recession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meantime the Faculty will convene this afternoon after a three weeks' recess for the fourth of a series of special sessions begun early last month. Debate at these meetings has centered on tenure and related problems...
Temporarily throttled while the national focus was on the Senate, the House watched carefully, dug out from their mail only to recess again. But while nothing has ever hurried the tempo of the Senate, the Administration was ready to try. Key Pittman convened the pro-repealers among his Foreign Relations Committee steadily over the weekend, came to a full committee meeting Monday with a tightly knitted bill sharply defining U. S. neutrality, generally limiting the President's powers, but re-establishing the cash-and-carry system for trade with belligerents, except that go-day credit supplanted the cash phrase...
...Japanese further argued Chinese currency should be declared valueless. But this-since it would be granting de facto recognition of Japan's ascendancy in North China-Sir Robert at first refused to do on the insistence of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Last week he reconsidered, then declared a recess while "awaiting further instruction" from London...
...Leiserson replaces Donald Wakefield Smith who has had a recess appointment since his term expired last August. To replace William Leiserson on NMB, the President chose another man small in stature, large in repute: David John Lewis, the learned, lovable, little Maryland ex-Congressman who was used last year in a bitter and stupid effort to purge Senator Millard Tydings (TIME, Sept. 12, et seq.).* As a worthy favorite at 70, Davey Lewis was considered too old for arduous duty on NLRB, just right for the easier routine of a railway mediator...
...bowed to the will of hostile legislators and organized labor and named William Morris Leiserson, 56, Chairman of the National Railroad Mediation Board, to the National Labor Relations Board succeeding Donald Wakefield Smith of Pennsylvania, a recess appointee who is persons non grata with the powerful American Federation of Labor and is in disfavor with a large segment of Congress...