Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This little note from the President, addressed to Mr. Garner, was read to the Senate last week. A few minutes later that body adjourned, ending a session which will be remembered in history less for what it accomplished than for a futile six-month rumpus over the Supreme Court...
...that it pointedly omitted to thank the Senate for its services, had been read, the motion to adjourn was offered and carried. Twenty-eight minutes later, at 7:23, the House, which had been wrangling over the cotton subsidy, likewise closed up and the 75th Congress' astonishing first session was over...
...President's end of the bargain was by no means the equivalent of a ''banker's acceptance." All he got was a promise that Congress would pass a resolution to make crop control legislation the first item in the order of business at its next session...
...down in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, invited Mr. Hillman to come in for a chat. What went on inside neither Labor's Hillman nor the Association's Attorney & Organizer David Cole would say, but the conference was followed by another next day. And from this session, which lasted until 2 a. m., Mr. Hillman emerged with a smile on his face and a contract in his pocket. First step toward stabilization, it agreed to union recognition, $18 weekly minimum for weavers and $15 for other less experienced workers, a 40-hr., 5-day week, time-&-a-half...
Ashurst: . . . Suppose during the session of Congress the President should nominate a man for Associate Justice . . . and he should be confirmed [by the Senate]. . . . We should have ten judges of the Supreme Court should...