Word: session
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democratic Field Marshal Simmons wanted to get back to New Bern, N. C.. where a bank failure, he explained, had cost him every cent he had. He it was who proposed the truce?adjournment of the special session, putting the tariff over to December. On the vote the Young Turks marched into the breach and turned the tide of battle by joining with Insurgent Republicans and a handful of insatiable Democrats to defeat (51 to 34) the adjournment resolution...
Quickly to his feet leaped Democratic General Harrison, proposing, as a sort of reprisal, night sessions on the tariff. The Young Turks accepted the challenge, helped to vote three-hour sessions each night, making a ten-and-a-half hour fighting day for the Senate. Never did the tariff war go more briskly. The Young Turks, in the saddle, had a definite program: to keep the Senate in session; to pass the bill by Dec. 1; to keep industrial rates at their present levels. Old Guardsmen fairly panted as farm rates were pegged up so rapidly that even Senate clerks...
...Congress convenes in regular session...
Yesterday afternoon's session found the Harvard squad working out in the protection of the Briggs baseball cage. The 1932 class team and the Seconds once again demonstrated the Blue attacking formations. Following this drill the players received instruction from the individual coaches. Forward and lateral passing was once again emphasized as the backs brushed up on their attack...
Coach Stevens has brought to a conclusion his intensive preparation for the Harvard encounter Saturday. Tomorrow's workout will be in the nature of a limbering up session and for the purpose of accustoming the players to the breezes and shadows of the Stadium. While in Boston, the Blue squad will stay at the Lenox Hotel...