Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth month of an ordinary session would find Congress, well past the warm-up stage, in a healthy sweat of legislative action. Last week, beginning its fifth month, the Senate met on Monday, adjourned until Thursday, met briefly then and quit for the week. Outside of giving final approval to the Treasury-Post Office Appropriations Bill and providing $5,000,000 for Federal participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, its most newsworthy activity was listening to a speech by Idaho's Borah against fascism...
...Even in the matter of routine appropriations they had finished only four bills, with ten yet to go. Experienced observers were predicting last week that outside of the necessary money bills and some decision on Court rejuvenation, all the rest of the major constructive measures set for action this session-wage & hour regulation, low-cost housing, executive reorganization, crop insurance, lessening of farm tenancy, and many others- would either go by the board or be whipped through in slapdash form at session's end. The causes of the stall were clear: the legislative machine had been jammed by President...
With these glowing words last January, Nebraska's grand old Senator George William Norris inaugurated the first session of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature which he had brought into being (TIME, Jan. 11). As that session drew to a close students of government, though granting that a four-month trial was no fair test, were nonetheless interested in surveying its results. These were not spectacular...
...program is a combination of classical music and lighter pieces. The calibre of the singing is excellent, but there is no attempt at regimentation, as there is at Princeton, where everyone must stand up for certain songs, and only certain classes may sing others. To leave a Princeton song session, or be inattentive, would be considered sacrilege. This same informality and pleasant lack of regimentation is as much part of the Harvard tradition as is the type of singing offered and the choice of tunes presented...
...most part, however, it must be admitted that the work of the Committees have proved of lesser benefit. The chairman is seldom able to round up his entire board, even for one session a year, to meet the whole staff of a department. When the few who are able to come, finally do so, the work accomplished is generally of the philanthropic variety. Each instructor has a list of needs, ranging from office typewriters to personal paper clips...