Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pesos) proceeds of the coconut oil processing tax which the U. S. imposed in 1934. So President Quezon, although he bitterly opposed the original imposition of the tax, now has 100,000,000 pesos to spend and is intent on getting full credit for it. To a special session of his legislature, he explained how he proposed to start spending this windfall...
...thundered down the long hall. As is traditional, apple-cheeked Rudolf Hess, deputy leader, opened the Congress; Julius Streicher, rabid Jew hater, welcomed the Führer and the party members to Nurnberg, Streicher's own stamping ground. And as is traditional, Hitler did not address the first session, instead sat messiah-like on the haupttribüne while rasping-voiced Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi leader, read the Fuhrer's Proclamation. Nazis laud the Proclamation as the coming year's party program, indicating in vague generalities the German course in foreign, internal affairs...
...gaudy blue & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal, the owl-eyed Son of Heaven, Hirohito, Emperor of Japan last week addressed his parliament from the Throne. Assembled for an emergency session, the legislators were expected to vote an additional $592,000,000 for a war that has already cost Japan $145,000,000. Said the Emperor...
...glad to escape from the broiling lowlands to cool Mexico City and go to work in the summer. Last week diplomats in gold braid, commercial attaches in morning clothes packed the balcony of Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies to hear President Lazaro Cardenas open the regular session of Mexico's 37th Congress. Senators, Deputies, who disdain formal dress as not in keeping with the nation's "social revolution," attended in street clothes...
When the legislators rose to take the oath, stood with arms pointed downward at a 22° angle, hands open, palms down, freshman diplomats were startled to observe pistol butts sticking from the rear pockets (Sof some Congressmen, who came ready for a turbulent four-month session. Up on the speaker's stand, President Cardenas, flanked by symbols of the Army's backing...