Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrary, Albany civic groups are strenuously opposed to the St. Lawrence project. On behalf of Albany businessmen, I was in attendance at the session of the International Joint Commission held in Albany, and put the Albany Chamber of Commerce on record as opposed. Among the reasons which I assigned were that facilities in this vicinity were ample to take care of all present transportation...
...First National Bank short $170,000, closed it. Promptly arrested on a Federal warrant charging embezzlement and misapplication of funds was the bank's president. South Dakota's Lieutenant Governor Robert Peterson. This week in Pierre the State Legislature was to meet in special session. Lieutenant Governor Peterson, a Democrat, planned to attend, not preside over the Senate, as he has since 1934, and to turn in his resignation...
...Meeting in a stormy secret session at Geneva, the moribund League of Nations Council with unexpected courage approved the British-French plan that a plebiscite be taken among the Spanish people to see what sort of government Spain now wants. Just how to do this the Council did not suggest...
That's the story." Canberra, the Capital of Australia: Devout Catholic Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons convenes an emergency session of the Australian Parliament for this week and keeps in continuous touch with Stanley Baldwin by short-wave radio...
...cabin she tosses for four hours on a medium rough crossing. French police shoot her baggage through the customs unopened. The Buick roars away and at 3:30 a. m. it brings Mrs. Simpson to Rouen for the night. She telephones King Edward who has just had another night session with Mr. Baldwin, this time at the snuggery, from which the Prime Minister departs calmly puffing at his famed pipe...