Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neutrality Act of 1935, rushed through in the final hours of the first session of the 74th Congress, provides for the specification of what is war material (for instance, any kind of airplane), requires the registration of all U. S. firms dealing in it, forbids its shipment to belligerent nations and permits its shipment abroad under any circumstances only upon receipt of a license from a division of the State Department. The Act became effective in November 1935. just in time to take all the fun out of the Ethiopian war for many a U. S. armorer. But there...
Such last week were the miscellaneous harbingers of a new Congress, but there were others more specific. Representative Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis, hulking ex-newshawk who three months ago sent the Clerk of the House the draft of a bill with the request that it be the session's Bill No. -an honor which Wright Patman of Texas won at the last two sessions for his Bonus Bill-got it back all neatly printed. Before a battery of cameramen he marched up and dropped it in the hopper (see cut). It was free publicity for a pet project...
This week when the 75th Congress of the U. S. assembled, those who looked down from the galleries could find few gaps in the ranks of Senate oldtimers. Of eleven Senators who at the close of the last session could claim the distinction of having occupied their seats before the U. S. entered the World War, most were again to be in their accustomed places. One, however, was certain to be conspicuous in absence. Neither Death nor defeat at the polls had accounted for him. Senator George William Norris of Nebraska was ''unavoidably detained...
...effects of the Toronto encounter, the Varsity Hockey team nevertheless had enough punch to keep the Dartmouth sextet back on its heels and blanked them 2 to 0 Saturday night at the Garden. Captain George Ford's two tallies, registered at 13:03 and 19:10 of the final session, saved the Stubbsmen from what had all the earmarks, up to that time, of a scoreless deadlock...
...with this in mind that Governor LaFollette has put himself on record as favoring appointing the regents one third by the state supreme court, one third by the alumni and one third by the governor, a bill for which is being prepared for introduction into the next session of the state legislature by one of the "political henchmen" of the Governor...