Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many members were in so much of a hurry to put their names on the petition that Speaker Bankhead, after calling hopelessly for order, was forced to suspend regular business. Whenever a Southerner or a Republican joined the line, supporters of the bill cheered. Forty minutes after the session opened, Mrs. Norton had 140 names on her list. Ten minutes later it had grown...
During a five-hour session today the Yale corporation refused to grant the petition signed by a thousand graduates to leave the historic "fence" intact. Not a single member of the corporation favored granting the petition. The decision has caused much disappointment among the undergraduates, and some of them are decidedly indignant...
Coach Won Fosler sent his Varsity basketball candidates through their first scrimmage session of the spring practice yesterday afternoon. Three teams were alternated in a ten minute period...
...President of the League of Nations Association, in an exclusive interview with the United Press tonight admitted defeat of the League's 20-year effort to abolish war by collective action of nations. He forecast that the appeals of Ethiopia, China and Spain to the League Council now in session would come to naught...
...reflecting climatic and racial differences in lover wage scales. Day before his visit to the White House, Mr. O'Connor glibly announced that the new bill would pass "if it ever gets to the floor." At week's end its chances of getting to the floor this session were effectively demolished when five Southern Democrats and three Republicans voted against the six other members of the committee not to give the bill a special rule. Only remaining possibility that Wages-&-Hours would get to a vote this session appeared to be that Labor Committee Chairman Mary T. Norton...