Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However the Massachusetts Teachers' Union and the Society for Freedom in Teaching will attempt to bring the issue into public attention by forcing the Governor to take his stand once again. In the event of failure in this session they assert that the item will be of considerable importance in the elections for State positions in November...
...Gommunist Party famed Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("The Passion Flower") entered "reservations" against points in the Premier's program speech, but joined the rest of the Deputies in voting "unanimous confidence." No further Cortes session scheduled, the Leftist Cabinet will thus continue to govern by decrees, ratified at long intervals...
Chief haggling point of the four-or-five-month session will be the reallocation of ultra-high-frequency, long-distance broadcasting bands (6,000 to 21,000 kilocycles). By an international agreement of 1927, modified in 1932, some 50 channels above 6,000 kilocycles were set aside for longdistance broadcasting. The U. S. walked off with the largest allotment and has plenty of room today for its 13 licensed high-frequency stations. But the European sections of the bands have become crowded with Italy, Germany, Russia and, of late, Britain all trying to influence other nations with short-wave political...
...these points last week, and apparently General von Fritsch thought he had the Führer at the point of capitulation, the whole course of current German history would have been altered. Herr Hitler, with his mystique momentarily shattered, decided in the greatest excitement not to call a session of the Reichstag which he was to have addressed. He might next have sent for General von Fritsch and capitulated, but instead he sent for Nazi Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Secret Political Police, and General von Fritsch, the Army commander-in-chief, was soon reported placed under arrest. Whether...
Everybody Sing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stars 15-year-old Judy Garland, Hollywood's latest child singer. She turns the morning singing hour of the Colvin School for Girls into a swing session. Sent home to the jittery bosom of a family infected with the slightly threadbare lunacy which has been bothering recent cinema families, she croons her way to a career with the help of Olga, a screwball maid (Fanny Brice), and Ricky (Allan Jones), a singing chef. Best of the Kaper-Jurmann tunes: Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn. Best Fanny Brice number: Quainty Dainty Me with her famed spirit...