Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were sure that after being disappointed for a month they were at last going to be rewarded with a decision on the Tennessee Valley Authority. They had two tips: 1) Word had leaked out that the Supreme Court police had been instructed to get luncheon in advance since the session would not be brief. 2) Seated in the court room crowd was Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes. The red velvet curtains behind the austere columns parted, and the silk-robed Justices rustled to their seats. Breathless was the crowd as Chief Justice Hughes began to read. After the first sentence...
Actually Mr. Morgan was doing no more than demonstrating how a male oldster can enjoy his leisure, for the Committee did not require his personal reappearance. He attended that session only because, as he said: "These things are important to me. I don't know so much about the details as the others, but I am responsible. Besides, I didn't want to miss the party...
...they worked day & night checking 98 cheating cases with University records. Four days after the first raid all was ready. Lest Cartland be mobbed by his angry clients he was sent out of town. Then Jack Pool summoned his student council, presented it with the 98 cases. In secret session the council went through the evidence case by case, in two days suspended 40 students from college...
...Session Begun Three Years...
Begun three years ago as a convenience to men who were unable to enter the Business School at the regular time in September, the Extra Session has steadily grown in popularity. About one-tenth of the men in the Extra Session are over 30 years of ago, and usually have had previous business experience. Men who graduate from colleges which operate on the "quarter" plan instead of the "somester" plan are enabled to begin graduate work without loss of time...