Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leader Bankhead was back at his Capitol office, promising that this year the New Deal should not go leaderless in the House. Already Washington was filling up with the bigwigs of Congress. Democrats from Speaker Byrns to Senator Harrison were singing the same old tune: a short and peaceful session adjourning in May. If that was to happen it would require much good work on Leader Bankhead's part, and he himself had no illusions. Said he: "I look for a snappy session but not necessarily a short...
...well knew that the session before a national election is a prime opportunity for the Outs to bedevil the Ins. He may have remembered in June 1932, before adjournment, he himself was standing on the floor of the House broadcasting in the Congressional Record an attack on the keynoter of the Republican National Convention which met in Chicago to renominate Herbert Hoover. This year Republicans would like the same opportunity. Nearly three years ago, when the New Deal was new and unopposed, Representative Bankhead was already suffering attacks of acute indigestion in the cloakrooms. Now again, though the President...
...fighting spirit of peace lovers is in for still more rousing during the coming session. The Senate Munitions Investigation Committee planned to reopen hearings, summon J. P. Morgan & friends, try to prove that the bankers drove the U. S. into the last war, try to dig up enough headline scandals to win committee members headline credit with headline-reading voters...
...impulsive habit of thinking up things for Congress to do at the last minute. Last year he tossed a new tax bill without warning into the Capitol on the eve of adjournment, precipitated late-summer anguish for all concerned. Now, intent, as he has announced, on a short session of Congress, he has made up his mind to a short legislative program. But at any time he may decide that the U. S. wants a new act to promote low-cost housing, amendments to the Social Security Act, a navy-building program, ship subsidies or new measures to reduce interest...
...battling fertilizer men of Virginia Carolina Chemical Corp. last week staged a new and surprising session of their long extended civil war. Last autumn Director George S. Kemp of Richmond brough about a complete management turnover with a new president, a new vice president and a new directorate, of which he was himself a member (TIME, Oct. 21 et seq.) In Richmond last week, while two polio sergeants saw to it that nothing more potent than personalities were exchanged, the anti-Kemp factor won a completely decisive victory. Headed by Alphonso Lyn Ivey, ousted from the presidency in October, they...