Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practically the only complaint not offered by various rebellious members in the House last week, as Chairman Marvin Jones of the Agriculture Committee maneuvered his 86-page Farm Bill toward the first vote taken in either House on a part of the President's program for the special session...
Since the House bill is destined to be rewritten in Conference after the Senate passes the Pope-McGill Bill, Administration leaders completed the first month of the special session with the hardest part of their No. 1 job still ahead. Both House and Senate bills aim to give Secretary Wallace more power to deal with mounting farm production than he possesses under last year's makeshift Soil Conservation Act. Both authorize him to draw up annual marketing quotas in advance for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, to obtain observance of them by means of benefit-paying voluntary contracts...
...University Hall. Harvard alumni, outstanding in the world of the theatre, such as John Mason Brown or Brooks Atkinson might well be lured back to benefit Harvard with their teachings. The idea is not entirely impractical, either, since Mr. Brown gave a course in playwrighting during the summer session last year. If the present rules regarding the number of composition courses a man may take were maintained, the fact that a man took two courses in playwrighting would in no way interfere with his liberal education...
...story never broke. Mr. Lewis was the first to emerge, snapping, "General conversations-no conclusions. We are in recess until 4 o'clock." Said Mr. Green a few minutes later: "We held a satisfactory and most interesting conference, but arrived at no conclusion. We will go back into session at 4 o'clock." After the 4 o'clock session Mr. Lewis rumbled: "Same story as at noon." And this statement was seconded by Mr. Green. Both studiously avoided arriving or departing together...
...Industry, the annual convention of the parent National Association of Manufacturers combined with conventions and conferences of the various affiliated and subsidiary associations, will come more and more important men than ever before in this always impressive event's 42-year history. For this year's session of the Congress of Industry has aroused more interest, both business and political, than any since N. A. M. was founded in 1895. It did so because most of its members believed the opportunity predicted by Mr. Chester-the moment when Recovery leadership would be transferred or passed by default...