Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill in question was the 104-page compromise measure patched together by a twelve-man conference committee out of the House and Senate Farm Bills passed during the special session (TIME, Dec. 20, et seq.). Since it had already been approved by the House, 263-10-135, it needed only the approval of the Senate and the signature of Franklin Roosevelt to make it the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and the law of the land. This week, after three days of debate divided between assertions by various Senators .that they did not understand what they were voting...
Members of the French Chamber who returned to Paris after being guests at the Leftist Parliament session reported that the Leftists had just arrested 2.000 political opponents in Barcelona suspected of conspiring for a coup...
...Street. He would be burned at Smithfield. And if Mr. Chamberlain has ceased to be combustible at Smithfield, that has been due to a movement of enlightenment and toleration. . . " Impressed by Lord Hugh's arguments, the Church Assembly nevertheless put off action on the repealer until its next session. The Assembly did take action en another matter put over at its last session. An Anglican layman named G. W. Currie had read, in a survey of 30.000 London houses owned by the Church, that some Maida Vale properties were "of dubious reputation morally." There were stories that girls...
...During the special session Congress started to revise a tax bitterly attacked by business since its enactment in 1936-the (1 surtax on large incomes, 2 nuisance tax, 3 Federal sales tax, 4 inheritance tax, 5 tax on undistributed profits...
...filibuster in the Senate throughout the first week of the special session was staged to prevent passage of the (1 wages and hours, 2 housing, 3 farm, 4 antilynching, 5 tax-revision) bill...