Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject to the final decisions which will come out of FCC's hearings of the last two months. These decisions are likely to be delayed until next year while the FCC digests volumes of argument and thinks about the Senate, where, before the close of the last session, Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler got an ominous resolution adopted. The resolution: that power in excess of 50 kw. for any U. S. broadcasting station is definitely against the public interest...
Governor M. Clifford Townsend last month convened Indiana's Legislature in a special session to vote some of the State's widely advertised $25,000,000 surplus into a pump-priming building program. Of greater interest to most Indianians was a much smaller piece of business-reconsideration of a highly unpopular Townsend act called the Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25? a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved...
...articulate group in the U. S. Business community, have long been leading critics (partly pro, but mostly con) of the New Deal. Last week about 5,000 of the country's 175,000 lawyers attended the annual convention of the American Bar Association in Cleveland. At the opening session, the A. B. A.'s outgoing president. Arthur T. Vanderbilt of Newark, dwelt on "the outstanding legal development of the 20th Century" - the Federal Government's quasi-judicial administrative agencies, such as the Securities & Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board...
Speaking for His Britannic Majesty's Government during a closing session of the House of Lords last week, the Earl of Plymouth, Parliamentary Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, gloomed: "Unless collaboration [by Germany] is forthcoming, this problem-already a difficult one-may possibly be rendered quite insoluble." Jewish supporters were quick to retort that even penniless Jews would prove a benefit to any nation...
...House of Commons last week adjourned to November 1, giving the Chamberlain Cabinet a general vote of confidence after a speech in which the Prime Minister explained his novel move for solving the Czechoslovak Question (see p. 15). The session closed with a fiery field day of spouted indignation because ships of the Royal Navy continue to stand by while British freighters are bombed in the ports of Leftist Spain. No fervent orator, however, went so far as to demand the alternative: that Spanish Rightist bombers be fired upon by Britons. As members sped to their homes, the Spanish...