Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of Congress, chairman of the all-important Rules Committee. During the last Congress Representative Bankhead, then Leader, was ill so much that Mr. O'Connor handled the duties of Leader for weeks at a time. When Speaker Byrns suddenly died in the last days of the session, Mr. Bankhead was promptly elected to succeed him, but the stormy question of whether Mr. O'Connor should become Leader was left undecided...
Instantly the Speaker touches a button, adjourns the Commons session before Mr. Churchill can speak. He snaps a bitterly sarcastic complaint at the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancashire. Sir John Davidson, who snarls back: "It is remarkable how much you as a private member seem to know about the wishes of the King...
Believing that the success of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference increases in proportion to undergraduate interest in the affair, the CRIMSON, in planning this year's session, hoped to make as much provision as possible for participation on the part of the student body. The current opening of the presidencies of three round tables to members of the university not necessarily connected with the newspaper is the initial step in carrying out this policy...
...further plans for the Conference are worked out undergraduates will be invited to take other places at the various discussion tables. Last year's session at Princeton proved the event to be too beneficial to be restricted to the newspapers alone, and it is hoped that the students will make the Conference as important to themselves as it is to the sponsors...
Bill Gray made his return to the Crimson lineup today for a short scrimmage session after a three day lay-up at Stillman Infirmary. Though in need of practice and still a little weak from his illness, Gray will be at his usual center position in the starting quintet tomorrow. Other starters with him will be McGowan and Lowman at the forward positions and Lupien and Struck playing at the guard posts...