Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legislation can, I hope, be passed at this session of the Congress further to help those who toil in factory and on farm. We have promised it. We cannot stand still...
...last time this session the Supreme Court (which adjourns for the season June 1) this week pronounced the fate of a major New Deal law. Expecting a decision on the Social Security Act, Senators (among them Court Candidate Joseph T. Robinson), members of the Social Security Board and Government attorneys dotted the crowd in the court room. The political consequences of the decision would affect not only the Social Security program but the President's Court program. To many an ardent New Dealer there would have been a very silvery lining in a decision finding this New Deal...
...electric light company which had failed. He pooled it with nearby local companies, established a central power plant. Resulting Berkshire Power Co. was sold at a profit to Hartford Electric Light Co. During 1901-10 Lawyer Roraback lobbied for the New Haven Railroad at Hartford, earned $5,000 a session, learned legislative wiles so well that in 1905 he gained for his own account a hydro-electric charter to harness the Rocky River. Twelve years later he sold this for $75,000, emerged as president of potent Connecticut Light & Power...
Trade Unions- After a three-week session of the Central Trade Union Council, Director Zharikov of the Bureau of Foreign Workers, Director Kotov, lately chief of the Social Insurance Bureau, Assistant Director Antoshkin of the Scientific Research Institute and Comrade Miliutan, editor of a trade union magazine-all four of them prominent trade union officials-were arrested on charges of "malfeasance, Trotskyism and sabotage." The Council further charged the trade unions as a whole with neglecting their main duty, the social welfare of the worker-supervising sanatoriums, sick benefits, old age benefits.* A Stalin-inspired ultimatum thundered that the trade...
...infuriated was President Illas when this story appeared in Havana's gossipy InformaciÓn last month that he devoted a session to a fierce harangue against the press, ordered InformaciÓn's Senate reporter to be booted from the press gallery. At this point the Senators decided they had had enough "conduct unbecoming a Senator," began clamoring for President Illas' resignation. After they refused to appear in numbers sufficient for a quorum. President Illas growled that he would resign. But when, to save face on both sides, his friends got 20 of the 36 Senators...