Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missouri's Democrat Cochran presented the House with a Reorganization bill of which not even thunder-gusty Columnist-General Hugh Johnson could complain. Eschewing aspects which aroused cries of "Dictator!" last session, the new measure simply invited the President to submit before Jan. 21, 1941 a plan to alter the executive establishment. The plan would become effective if Congress should not (without filibustering) veto it by majority vote in 60 days. Things which the President may not touch or have: Comptroller-General's office, Civil Service Commission, Department of Public Welfare or Works, more than six administrative assistants...
...British suggestion said nothing about the ultimate internal government of independent Palestine, but Secretary MacDonald was understood to have informed the Arab delegates at a private session at his country home that Britain contemplated the establishment of a mixed, Arab-Jewish government, in which the two races would be represented according to population. Unless an unthinkably heavy influx of Jews was allowed in the next few years, this would mean that the Arabs would outnumber the Jews...
...important change in the Crimson line-up was made after Thursday afternoon's practice session at the Skating Club, when Coach Hodder shifted Freddie DeRahm, who has been playing on the second line this year, up to the position of right winger on the first trio with Austie Harding and Joe Patrick. This shift will put DeRahm back on the same combination that he played with during part of last season...
...returned unobtrusively to take up practice in Ghent. Some time ago, Belgian Premier Paul Henri Spaak proposed Dr. Martens for membership in the newly created Flemish Academy of Science and King Leopold gave the proposal his royal signature. The Premier went before the Parliament and, after a riotous session, finally came out with its reluctant approval. But when he reached his home the veterans were waiting for him. As he stepped out of his taxi, 200 of them pummeled him to the pavement, shouted "Resign! Resign...
Further treading on the industry's toes, Dancer Douglas politely explained that the Met was "not singled out as a culprit," that other mutual companies employ the same "election machinery." The swing session was then adjourned until this week, and Bill Douglas journeyed to Manhattan to speak before the annual dinner of Fordham University alumni, there cut some verbal capers of his own: "The convenient and impersonalized use of the corporate device has unquestionably contributed to moral decadence. This has especially been true with the growth of bigness. . . . Individual responsibility before God has no counterpart in the corporate system...