Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purposeful quietude. Having called Congress into special session (see p. 12), Franklin Roosevelt had no wish prematurely to provoke the mobilizing forces of Isolation. Idaho's formidable Borah was no adversary to be wantonly aroused. The President stepped as delicately as Agag. Meanwhile, he tried to prevent Republicans from forming a solid front against his foreign policy: to his councils this week he summoned Alf M. Landon and his 1936 running mate, Publisher Frank Knox, as earnest that the White House was prepared to practice national unity, whatever isolationist Republicans in the Senate might...
Under that sky, political lineups went by the board. The battle lines were drawn around a confused, mishandled, four-year-old Neutrality Act. To Washington the President summoned the Congress to meet on September 21 in special session. He prepared to ask them to repeal the major section of that act-the provision compelling him to declare absolute embargoes on the sale and shipment of arms and munitions to all countries...
Borah's shadow, and the threat it represented, had caused Franklin Roosevelt to change his mood and tactics. Suddenly honey-sweet to the press he had often lambasted, Franklin Roosevelt now turned his full charm on his opponents: solicitously he consulted Republican leaders about a special session; then on the dissident Democrats. Twice he called the Mississippi fox, Pat Harrison, by long-distance telephone. He condoled Georgia's Walter George on an eye-operation (13 months ago he strove to end George's career). He appointed James Elliott Heath (a close crony of Virginia's Carter...
This morning the Varsity will hold its final weekend drill, and will be given the afternoon off. Monday the team will resume regular practice but the morning session will be discontinued...
...initial skirmishes today. Senate Democratic leaders met and agreed to confine the session to problems created by the crisis abroad. This plan, it was said, does not preclude introduction of special legislation if needed to cope with developments...