Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year sought to divide between, respectively, the Budget Director and a new Auditor General.) The bill also forbade the President to do away with any function of the agencies he might alter or merge. And it gave Congress power by majority vote to invalidate within 60 days (of a session) any change made by the President...
...main objective of the Congress is the consideration by as large a number of students as possible of the legislation pending in the present session of Congress. Major issues now up in Congress will be discussed in eight Committees based on the committees in the National Congress, including education, social security, relief, civil liberties, Wagner Act, health, agriculture, and foreign policy...
There are several weaknesses in the present scoring method. First of all, it gives too much weight to the personal opinion of the referee, who, lacking hard-and-fast rules, usually sends close bouts into an overtime session. Also, under present rules, it is possible for a man to win without displaying any aggressive wrestling. Such a wrestler could gain an early time advantage and then merely stall or hang on for dear life until the end of the bout...
...West Philadelphia Y. M. C. A., intolerance of intolerance seemed a contradiction in terms. It acted on its convictions. This Committee for Racial and Religious Tolerance-an organization headed by such men as Quaker Rufus Matthew Jones, Baptist Daniel Alfred Poling, Congressman Francis J. Myers-was in session when 30 hecklers burst into its meeting. The Committee tolerantly let them heckle. The invaders shouted denunciations of Jews and praise of Hitler, tossed around anti-Semitic pamphlets and stickers...
Most of the preliminary details were soon dispensed with, and towards the end of the afternoon session, Messrs. Harlow, Wood, Fesler, Clark, Struck, and their Senior assistants had divided the squad into four teams to run through plays. The first two teams were composed chiefly of Sophomores and Juniors, but with a generous sprinkling of first year...