Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking with Ch'ao-ting Chi on the crisis in China, Holcombe's address will come at 8 o'clock in the concluding session...
When the special session opened last November with no Farm Bill in sight, Alben Barkley, like a Confederate general trapped into acting as a front for a group of carpetbaggers, unhappily unloosed the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill and its inevitable filibuster. It was temporarily laid aside when the Farm Bill appeared, but nothing is more important to a legislative leader than to keep his promises to the letter. So no sooner was the President's message out of the way last fortnight than Alben Barkley, still smarting from the abuses of the last filibuster, fulfilled his pledge, produced the Anti...
...Geneva the 100th session of the Council of the League of Nations which had been about to open was suddenly postponed. In London Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hastily conferred with Anthony Eden, called home from Monte Carlo to duty : . the Foreign Office. For European statesmen felt that it was not just another French Cabinet which fell last week, that a crisis was at hand not only for France but for Europe...
Nevertheless, Chautemps continued trying to set up a Cabinet which would "group a maximum of goodwill around the essential principles approved by the electors." After pondering this subtle formula, at length, the Socialists in an all-night session of their National Council at first voted- in effect reversing their previous stand- to participate in any Government, even one lacking Communists, committed to a Popular Front program. Later the Socialists changed their minds, promised Chautemps only their votes in the Chamber of Deputies. Despite the tenuousness of this support, he made it this week the basis of a projected all-Radical...
...Comin' Virginia, most of which the Goodman band had recorded. Also played was the celebrated set piece Sing, Sing, Sing, notable for demoniac Gfene Krupa's imperious drum beat and Teddy Wilson's rippling piano. But the event of the evening was the "jam session," effacingly noted as "no doubt the greatest contradiction a swing program could offer," but in effect a blaring success. Amiable Mr. Goodman seated himself in his reed section, his professional spectacles gleaming, and Count Basic began thumping a blues on the piano. For two or three choruses it looked as though...