Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the appraising eye of Coach Tom Boiles, a continuous procession of eights kept Newel tank churned yesterday afternoon in the first session of a long crew campaign, a campaign that consists of an almost unbroken series of daily workouts stretching from the end of midyears until the final sprint at New London...
William B. Munro, Acrts '96, Harvard '01, who delivered the Alumni address at last fall's reunion, has been in charge of the organization of the preliminary session of the new school. Through this new school Harvard will "endeavor to render a real and increasing service to the cause of better governmental administration," says the Harvard Crimson...
...sovereign globe who with the have rank been of "P. C." honored (Privy Councilor). Thus there is a broad Commonwealth flavor about the Judicial Committee. It smacks faintly of Union Jacks on which the sun never sets, and yet is definitely Mother Country. Last week in an historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void the Dominion of Canada's legislative measures for unemployment insurance, minimum wages, limitation of working hours and regulation of marketing: the "Canadian New Deal." These measures were originally introduced by Canada's unpopular Old Dealer Richard...
...hitherto voteless stockholders. Sole control previously rested in the potent hands of the 200 largest shareholders-"the 200 Families of France" (TIME, May 18, et seq.). With a turn-out of no less than 1,300 excited Parisian and provincial shareholders, the meeting was as raucous as a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies. It took Governor Emile Labeyrie three hours to get through his scholarly 90-minute report, so often was he interrupted by catcalls, loud expressions of dissent and ironic cries of "Vive la Banque!" Wide open was the governor to shareholders' jokes, for his report...
Moreover, in Washington there were going on an astonishing number of mysterious money meetings. The heads of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks were in conference, the Federal Reserve's open market committee was closeted all one day, the Reserve Board itself was in frequent session. At the Treasury, Secretary Morgenthau was meeting with such oddly assorted people as State Department experts, President George L. Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and old Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the onetime Treasury adviser who quit the New Deal in a huff...