Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Conservative Democrats and Republicans in Congress to-night prepared for a determined campaign at the coming session to slice millions from the government spending program for the next fiscal year, now being whipped into shape by President Roosevelt and his financial experts...
...Committee voted in secret session. TIME was misinformed about Committeeman Voorhis' vote...
Yale arrives at 12:37 o'clock today on a special train and moves into the Stadium an hour later for a brief practice session...
Congressional Canutes or no, the tide of national debt was still mounting. In the fiscal year 1939 the U. S. spent $3,600,000,000 more than was collected in taxes. Session III of the 76th Congress will face a probable new Army appropriation of about $1,700,000,000, a new Navy appropriation of about $1,300,000,000, plus a $275,000,000 deficiency appropriation. To meet this bill for national defense, while continuing to spend many millions on relief, works, etc., the U. S. Treasury must raise new taxes, somehow, somewhere. And 1940 is an election year...
...talkingest of them all was Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who, having given a full explanation of how Royal Oak came its cropper (see p. 20), held a pep session on BBC. It contained easily the week's liveliest name-calling...