Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discreetly kept during the campaign. Their goal was Greenbelt, $10,000,000 model suburb which Dr. Tugwell is building on 8,000 rolling Maryland acres five miles north of the District of Columbia. For the handsomest braintruster, this display of Presidential favor came at a critical moment. Congress last session had refused to appropriate funds for his Resettlement Administration, forcing him to confine its activities chiefly to drought relief, financed by handouts from WPA. With a thoroughgoing Governmental re-organization in prospect, Administrator Tugwell was last week jockeying strenuously to get his emergency agency incorporated in the Department of Agriculture...
After this indignity to Leader Green, the craft union leaders assembled in Tampa in no conciliatory mood. The Metal Trades Department held their session ahead of the regular A. F. of L. meeting and their president, scholarly John P. Frey who presented the original charges against the C. I. O. unions, denounced the Lewis bloc for affording Communists a foothold in U. S. labor organizations. At the last minute, since Mr. McGrady could not be present, George L. Berry, president of the Printing Pressmen's Union and Federal Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation (NRA plan-maker), rushed to Tampa...
Originally passed by a vote of 130 to 94, and attempt to repeal the law in the last session was voted down...
...will in all probability be quite a different story in the coming session, though, as some 61 backers of the bill were not re-elected to the General Court this November. Eight out of nine Democrats upon whom the Teacher's Union directs their heaviest are were defeated...
...team was still wreathed in smiles from the Princeton victory. However, as the eve of battle approached the jubilant spirit disappeared and the Elis settled down to serious work. Thursday afternoon for the first time the tarpaulins of the Bowl were peeled off and coach Pond ordered a secret session behind locked gates. For the most part the Yale practice was devoted to dummy scrimmage against the Crimson plays which were effectively stopped. As might be expected the famous combination of Kelley-Frank was given considerable attention, and there is no doubt that Kelley will make every effort possible tomorrow...