Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of their machine for Democratic nominee at the usual party convention. But potent Kentucky New Dealers got busy on President Roosevelt and a pious letter from him, expressing hope that candidates would be chosen by primary elections, gave young Lieutenant-Governor Chandler his excuse to call a special session of the Legislature in Governor Laffoon's absence. The Legislature passed a primary law, by which, on Governor Laffoon's insistence, a majority was required for victory (TIME, Sept. 23). The Laffoon candidate led the Democratic primary with a plurality, lost the run-off to New Dealer Chandler...
...Ishbel MacDonald. no longer apple-cheeked but pale with strain, tried to speak for her father, she too was jeered off the platform. So was onetime Engine Greaser James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Dominions Secretary. At the famed waxworks of Madame Tussaud, where the National Government may be seen in session any day, the dummies most definitely slated to disappear were those of Ramsay and Jim. With unction rich, Prime Minister Baldwin took it upon himself to tell Demos that it was not being Democratic. "I have been a little anxious as a Democrat," said the Tory Leader at Leeds, "that...
Coach Gallagher stressed fundamentals in his initial talk to the candidates, and urged everyone to keep in condition at all times. Demonstrations of various holds occupied the latter part of the session, the grapplers then being given a chance to put these teachings into practice...
...changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange and stocks after a seven-month climb were at their highest levels since the New Deal took office. Unemployment was still high, relief plans still in a muddle, but hunger marchers were nowhere. The Bonus was conceded victory in the next session of Congress. Only two disturbances loomed ahead: 1) the possibility of the Supreme Court's invalidating AAA's processing taxes; 2) the growing issue of Government spending to be faced in the next budget...
...present no individual quotas can be allotted to potato farmers, because the money for enforcing such allotments was not forthcoming from the last session of Congress. The next session of Congress can easily provide the funds, but it may not be necessary. Secretary Wallace, having cold feet about attempting to regiment some 3,000,000 potato raisers, decided, on his own initiative, to take a straw vote among them next January on the question of whether they want obligatory potato control. If a large majority want it, Congress will be asked to appropriate the money. If the majority is small...