Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Congress convened in Extraordinary Session last fortnight, extraordinary tasks confronted it: the President's four-point legislative program, to which Recession had added the pressing problem of tax revision. When Congress completed its second week of the Special Session, its task was still just as formidable as it had been. In its second week in Washington, the Senate managed to stop filibustering about antilynching, but debate had not become notably intelligent. In the House, the most noteworthy result of, the second week was an opportunity long sought for one of that body's most obscure members...
That Republican Leader Snell sometimes has an even harder time running his much smaller faction of the House-its 90 Republican minority- than Majority Leader Rayburn has with his unruly Democratic majority had been made apparent on the very first day of the Special Session. To a request for adjournment for three days, which needed unanimous consent to be effective, an obscure Republican from Evanston, Ill. had objected on the grounds that "Congress should get down to work." By a minority of one, Representative Ralph Edwin Church thus forced the House to meet the following three days of its first...
...Rayburn proposed that the House adjourn until two days later. Instantly, Illinois' Church, still insistent that the House keep its nose to the grindstone, was on his feet to ask whether it was true that there would be no action on the Tax Bill till the regular session...
Climax of the two-day session will come this afternoon at 3 o'clock when the Columbia Broadcasting System will carry the results of the Conference to the public. At this time speeches will be made by Nathaniel Peffer, professor at Columbia, Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, William, Hancock '38, and Senator Ernest Lundeen, speaking from Washington...
...visitors. Sarnoff and Viereck will each present ten-minutes papers on the domestic side of the foreign policy problem during the afternoon meeting. The diplomatic and international side of the situation will be covered in papers by Nathaniel Peffer, William Potter Lage '30, and Clyde Eaglton in the evening session...