Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-depression drive charged today that Communists throughout the country are spreading propaganda in favor of the legislation. The charges, which followed administration accusations that propaganda against the program is being organized on a "chain letter" basis, plunged the House into bitter debate during a session of less than three hours...
...HAVEN, Conn.--As undergraduates leaders summed up the round table discussions at a plenary session Saturday afternoon, the Yale-Harvard-Princeton conference on current problems sponsored by the undergraduate dailies drew to a close...
Wages & Hours. "I am again expressing my hope that the Congress will enact at this session a wage-and-hour bill ... to insure a better distribution of our prosperity...
...excitable Boston press announced the Hicks appointment with screaming headlines, horrified patriots saw Harvard's gleaming crimson turning dirty red. In annual session at the Bradford Hotel, 20 ancients of the Grand Army of the Republic rose to their shaking feet, quavered a unanimous protest. In the State Legislature, a committee investigating subversive activities was given another month's lease on life, and Representative Francis X. Coyne introduced a bill to remove the tax exemption of any educational institution employing a known Communist or Fascist...
...Railway Labor Act's detailed procedure of negotiating wages takes months & months. And even President Roosevelt admits the roads cannot wait long for financial aid. Said he fortnight ago in passing along the railroad problem to Congress: "Some immediate legislation is, 'I believe, necessary at this session, in order to prevent serious financial and operating difficulties between now and the convening of the next Congress...