Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never before while Congress was in session had Jack Garner done anything of this kind. In Congress he has been one of the President's chief behind-scenes wirepullers, arranger of neat political compromises, legislative uncle of the New Deal. With the Executive department reorganization, wages & hours and taxloophole-plugging bills on the way, with the Supreme Court enlargement bill expected to produce such a fight that perhaps the Vice President's vote and certainly his influence would be needed, Jack Garner was slipping away...
...venture to say that if Congress at this session voted taxes enough or reduced Government appropriations for Relief and other purposes sufficient to balance the Budget, half the members would not be reelected. So let us not blame it all on Congress. The place to begin economizing is at home. The electorate must practice restraint before economy can be accomplished in Government...
...military secret service of a foreign government conducting an unfriendly policy against the Soviet Union. They . . . permitted wrecking acts intended to undermine the power of the Red Army and to prepare for . . . the defeat of the Red Army in event of an attack against it. ... The special court session found all eight guilty of violating their military oath, of treason to the Red Army and of treason to the motherland and decided to deprive them of all military ranks and to sentence all of them to the highest measure of criminal punishment...
...months ago, after a long hard session of work, Dr. Fishbein suffered an attack of Bell's palsy. The right side of his face hung slack as a bloodhound's jowls. Anna, his wife, "was frantic." He went to bed at once. Neurologists tickled him with electric currents, and an orthopedist stripped his face in a brace. This supported his facial muscles until the nerves recovered and took charge of muscular tone. After three and a half weeks Dr. Fishbein recovered with no residual grimace...
...last fortnight when dividends were passed (TIME, June 14), the unhappy preferred stockholders in New York Steam Corp. must have felt last week as if their corporate fires were about to go out. After the break which carried Steam's two preferred issues down 20 points in one session, the stocks rallied briskly, the 6% series having climbed by last week to $96 per share, the 7% series...