Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor. Senator Wagner brought up the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Although Alben Barkley has cast a good Southern vote against anti-lynching bills in the past, he was caught in a legislative trap. To prevent a new filibuster from wrecking the closing hours of the session, he promised Senator Wagner if he would withdraw it for the time, that it would be considered, second only to the Farm Bill, next session...
...band that would please swingsters and waltzers alike. COLLEGIATE DIGEST is particularly proud to be the nation's first publication to honor these men of note in this manner and we only wish we could get them all together to entertain you at a super-deluxe swing session...
...review of a Freshman course should not cram the facts but, acting on the supposition that the men have done the fundamental work, it should outline the course as a whole in order to teach men where to lay the emphasis. In short, it should be a two-hour session in how to study...
...study session they are of real service to the whole college community, and their value can be still further increased by establishing the reviews when they are really needed--before the November hours. If there is a desire for a review before midyears, how much greater is the need before those dreaded hours which in so many cases determine the whole course of a college career...
...Heflin's chief liability was the loud and bigoted clownishness he displayed in both houses of Congress for 27 years. Lister Hill, reported candidate of Governor Bibb Graves's machine, had as his chief liability a zealous New Deal enthusiasm that led him last session to break with his southern colleagues over the wages-&-hours legislation. To voters Tom Heflin roared, "Send me to the Senate and I'll see that they don't pass the anti-lynching bill." But the idea of sending Tom Heflin back to the Senate for any reason whatever, according...