Word: session
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...world know, he has been for many years the chief advisor for the Nebraska School for the Blind, its chief benefactor. He has helped me, the chief executive, with counsel. He has visited the school often. And he has provided funds in many, many ways. While school is in session every month there comes a check for our children from which 25? is provided weekly for those without means, with the understanding that the money is to be spent purely for happiness. Toys, candy, fruit and other things dear to the heart of children are purchased with the $1 monthly...
...Court in Session...
...TIME'S picture of the Supreme Court of the United States (June 7), in our library here we have framed photographs of, I think, every group of the Supreme Court that has been taken in the last 50 or 60 years, including the drawing of the Court in session back in Chief Justice Fuller's time...
Supreme Court in session, prints it herewith. The drawing shows James J. Hill's lawyer, John G. Johnson (left), arguing the famed Northern Securities case before Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller and the Court, January 1904. (Justices from left to right are: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Henry Billings Brown, John Marshall Harlan, Chief Justice Fuller, David Josiah Brewer, Edward Douglass White, Joseph McKenna, William Rufus Day.) Northern Securities Co. had been organized to control the securities of Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railways. By a 5-to-4 decision, the holding company was found in restraint...
...streets of Geneva were more than usually alive with taxis and portmanteaus last week. Finished after 20 days of hard work and differences was the 23rd session of the International Labor Conference- an annual, semi-official jamboree of the world's leading spokesmen on labor questions, convened by the International Labor Office, offshoot of the League of Nations. Present at this year's session were 97 Government delegates, 36 employers' delegates, 35 workers' delegates, 247 technical advisers, who had gathered from 51 countries to talk about world labor problems under the presidency of 37-year...