Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senators laughed; they always laugh at Pat Harrison when they have nothing else to do. The first week of a Senate session is more vaudevillian than legislative. It helps the new Senators become acclimated. This session there are only four newly-elected ones: Arthur R. Gould of Maine, Republican, 6 ft. 2 in., healthy and 70; Harry B. Hawes of Missouri, Democrat, able fisherman and breeder of pedigreed hogs; David W. Stewart of Iowa, Republican, onetime Marine, portly, bald and 41; David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Democrat, bachelor, with a deep, rich voice (he had been in the Senate before...
...Henry Cabot Lodge in 1924, Senator Curtis took over the reins of Republican leadership. Previously he had been, the assistant leader, busy salving the wounds which Senator Lodge inflicted upon his fellow Republicans. As leader, Senator Curtis, for the first time in recent years, succeeded in closing the short session of the 68th Congress on March 4, 1925, without all-night sessions. He kept the calendar clear, the legislative machinery grinding. Nothing roils Senator Curtis more than blocs and filibusterers...
...those who have been retained on either of the two teams selected are expected to prepare 10 minute speeches on the affirmative of the topic for discussion with the speakers from Leland Stanford and Bates. The first practice session will be held on Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock in Harvard 6. Other meetings will be held at the same hour on Thursday and Monday...
...tide has swung around and President Coolidge, if he were inclined to squabble with the Senate, might have reason to make such a remark concerning the Republican insurgents. They hold the balance of power today in the 69th Senate; during the next two years in the 70th session their power will be decisive, the votes of any two of them being sufficient to give either the Democrats or Republicans control of the Senate. Calvin Coolidge, however, is no Woodrow Wilson. Last week he set about to placate the insurgents, cajole them, humor them. To a breakfast of buckwheat cakes...
...discuss the territorial aspirations of Italy, the problems of Rhineland evacuation and many another point which has cropped up since they last met (TIME, Oct. 11). The so august and so friendly statesmen were engaged, last week, in settling the details of their joint policy during the mid-December session of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva. There Germany will be represented and Spain will continue to hold aloof-having recently closed even her diplomatic and consular office at the League Secretariat. As M. Briand and Sir Austen went figuratively arm in arm to Geneva, last week...