Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last some 15 years (see col. 3). In Hyde Park the next day he sprang another rabbit. Sitting on the stone porch of his mother's house he gave a press conference to understand that he had practically made up his mind to call a special session of Congress next month, to start "spadework" on new legislation. He immediately laid out the special session's program, starting where the 75th Congress' tired first session ended last summer: crop control, antilynching, wages and hours legislation, reorganization of the executive branch of the Government, regional planning. The President promised...
Labor Society. Even less like a fighting machine was the convention out of session. A joy to Denver's hotelmen, the unionists ate expensively, drank extensively, took all the best rooms and confined their fun mainly to poker. Mr. Green stayed in an $18-per-day suite in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he was served by a union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union...
Oldtime Actress Maude Adams assumed her duties as professor of drama at Stephen's College, Columbia, Mo., at a salary of $10,000 for the two months session...
Reorganization and protective committees. "I am confident that the Lea bill and the Barkley bill and the Chandler bill will be passed during the next session of Congress." (All three bogged down this year...
...Atatürk has been Dictator (15 years). It was as if Dictator Hitler had suddenly replaced Four-Year-Plan Director General Goring by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht (see col. 2). Moreover, Renovator KamĊl Atatürk brusquely called back last week from the League of Nations session famed Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras, a onetime obstetrician who was present at the accouchement of Young Turkey and has represented her abroad for so long that his weak eyes, peering keenly from behind thick-lensed spectacles of highest power have become fixtures at the green tables of Europe...