Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asked at a session of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Home Town Club in Hyde Park whether the President would run for a third term, Mrs. Roosevelt replied, "I hope...
Hangover. Two little fiscal headaches remained over from fiscal 1937. Although Congress had been in session for six months prior to fiscal New Year's day, it had not succeeded in passing all the regular appropriation bills so that departments would have money to spend beginning July 1. With the War and Interior Departments supply bills still unpassed, the Senate quietly took a recess on fiscal New Year's eve. Result: on New Year's morning a "continuing resolution," allowing those Departments to continue spending for two weeks at the same rate as last year, was hurriedly...
...they felt that as President of the I.C.C. he rated the new "Merit Cross" just created by Adolf Hitler and first bestowed on Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 14). Nazis Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (Hitler, Göring and Goebbels) turned out in Berlin to attend the first session of the I.C.C. and not only Mr. Watson but scores of other delegates gave the Nazi salute. But, though nearly everyone except Adolf Hitler applauded a declaration by Minister for National Economy Dr. Hjalmar Schacht that the Reichsbank wants "honest money and honest raw materials," plus a return to the gold...
Sergeants-at-arms in the Chamber of Deputies had to keep separating members who loudly threatened to thrash each other. On three occasions the Speaker, portly M. Edouard Herriot, was unable to get order by ringing his bell, had to suspend the session by the classic French gesture of clapping on his silk hat and waddling out. Twenty Communist Deputies rushed in a fist-shaking, hoarse-shouting phalanx toward the centre of the Chamber, and only concerted efforts by all the sergeants-at-arms checked their assault. In the Senate it was the duty of former Premier Blum, since...
...lawsuit brought by a disgruntled consumer who had found a drowned black widow spider in the bottom of his Coca-Cola bottle, Curator Fattig put a live, wriggling black widow spider into his mouth, crunched and swal- owed it, sat quietly in the courtroom the rest of the session. Since chemical action of carbonated water sterilizes insect matter, Curator Fattig thinks nothing at all of downing such sodaed morsels as grasshoppers, houseflies, small toads and frogs, wasps, stink bugs, beetles, caterpillars, earthworms, centipedes...