Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strictly for form's sake President William Green and his 13 craft union followers resolved themselves into a trial court. Since the first session was long and hot, the meetings were moved from the A. F. of L.'s offices to an air-cooled banquet hall of the Hotel Hamilton across the street from C. I. O. headquarters. Industrial Unionist Lewis could, by looking out his office window, see the back of Craft Unionist Green sitting in shirt sleeves at the conference table...
...Geneva. Whether or not the Olympic Games actually serve their purpose of promoting international understanding remains dubious. That they afford harmless amusement to participants & spectators, a valuable chance for ballyhoo to the nation which holds them, no one is better aware than Realmleader Adolf Hitler, who attended every session except one last week, inspired his loyal Nazi followers to win the unheard of total of five track & field events...
...front cover) Ten minutes before the short Saturday session officially closed on the New York Cotton Exchange last week, a gong brought trading on the world's biggest cotton futures market to a silent halt. The U. S. Crop Reporting Board, having been locked in secret session in Washington since dawn, was about to release its first estimate of the U. S. cotton crop for the new crop year which opened Aug. 1. Trading also stopped on the country's other two cotton futures markets, in Chicago and New Orleans. On the spot markets scattered throughout the cotton...
Three days & nights of such rowdy high jinks by organized jobless in the galleries last week forced Pennsylvania's General Assembly into submission. For 13 weeks its Democratic House and Republican Senate had haggled in special session over relief for the State's 560,000 needy. Last month when funds ran out, a small group of unemployed rolled into Harrisburg by bus, made themselves so obnoxious that Republicans and Democrats advanced $3,000,000 for temporary relief. Last fortnight the $3,000,000 were gone and the army trooped back in greater numbers. Kept alive & kicking...
...this, furious uproar burst from both sides of the House. Unable to still its bedlam, the Speaker got up from the chair and by stalking out suspended the session. Twenty minutes later he stalked back to ask suspension of the Independent Labor Party's Buchanan & Campbell Stephen. This was voted, 248-to-53. Home Secretary Sir John Simon resumed his interrupted speech, and all seemed about to go off smoothly when Frederick Seymour Cocks of the Labor Party rose to face Sir John and declare in calm, measured tones: "This Right Honorable Gentleman we all know...