Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday's practice session was the usual play-polishing affair, with the final check-up on those special Yale touchdown plays being attended to by the coaching staff. Bobby Green's condition is almost in top shape now, and he is expected to see a whole let of service, starting with the opening kickoff...
Last summer, immediately following the adjournment, when the President was left angry and defeated on a majority of issues, political prophets expressed the belief that a special session would be called, and that when that session assembled, there would be at hand a splendid barometer for testing popular sentiment on the subject of the New Deal. For the President, as well as the Congressmen, was to visit many of the important constituencies, and, they argued, the attitude when Congress re-assembled would reflect, to a large extent, the attitude of the voters "back home...
Even the President's message to the special session was indicative of the new attitude of the Administration. Characterized by a Washington correspondent as "the mildest message of his career," the document breathed a conciliatory spirit, and went to the unprecedented length of proposing tax revision,--albeit somewhat vaguely,--and again mentioned budget-balancing. Only once did the President stoop to demagoguery, when in referring to his old whipping post, the Supreme Court, he expressed the hope that the Court will not "again deny to farmers the protection which it now accords to others...
Again, in his proposal for a national wage and hours bill, one of the measures on which the Administration was unable to secure action in the last session, Mr. Roosevelt urged that a coordinating agency, with powers of "inspection and investigation to ensure the recognition and enforcement of what the law requires," be set up. This is the same dictatorial body with sweeping powers over all American industry that caused the downfall of the bill last session and should do so at this special meeting...
Contacting 594 men in the History, Government, and Economics departments in the hope of drawing a large crowd, the committee has mimeographed relevant parts of the Bill to facilitate discussion. The Congress will debate and amend the Bill during its session...