Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remainder of the program remains unchanged. Harvard speakers are, at the Friday afternoon session, Thomas H. Sanders, professor of Accounting, and William Y. Elliott, professor of Government...
...measure will be proceeded with and it is expected that action will be taken on it during the present session. Aside from the provisions that relate to the Supreme Court, other features of the bill are to be regarded as of vital importance. It is felt that during the last few months some changes have occurred which modify the situation, but there still exists the necessity for the injection of new blood into the Court...
These shots might as well have been saved, for the House was assembled this time to pass the bill that the Administration wanted and it voted overwhelmingly to stay in session until it did so. Taking the usual 40 minutes for each roll call, the House went doggedly on into the night before a crowded gallery.* With roll call after roll call, the earmarking amendments were knocked out one by one until, when the final vote was taken, not even the amendment to reduce Administrator Hopkins' salary remained...
...After this tiring session, longest of the present Congress only because of the numerous roll calls, weary Maury Maverick of Texas began agitating for a mechanical vote-recording device in the House...
...price-now the buying price of the Bank of France in terms of the latest quotation for pound sterling-the members make bids & offers, buying order being matched against selling order until supply & demand meet. The price at that point is the gold price for the day. The whole session usually lasts about ten minutes...