Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope by a recess appointment to seat a man on the bench whom the Senate might not otherwise readily approve, trusting that the Senate would not care to reject the new Justice next January after he had already served through the fall term...
...Senate did reject a recess appointee would any decisions which he took part in on the bench, prior to rejection, be legal...
...Would a recess appointment be legal or might the Supreme Court itself refuse to seat a recess appointee...
Sorrow & Politics. For a week Joe Robinson had prevented the Senate from adjourning, had closed each meeting with a recess so as not to break the "legislative day," the fiction under which Senators were denied the privilege of speaking more than twice. Mrs. Caraway after announcing the death of her colleague, said, "I move the Senate do now adjourn" and a solemn chorus of "ayes" approved her motion. Thus ended Senator Robinson's drive for the Court Bill's enactment...
...country is familiar by this time with the parliamentary device of indefinitely continuing the same 'legislative' day by 'recessing' instead of 'adjourning' at the close of each session and the consequent application of the rule that a Senator shall not speak more than twice on the same subject during the same day. But study of precedents at Washington has brought out the fact that in the past the invariable custom of the Senate on the announcement of the death of one of its members has been immediately to adjourn, not recess...