Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perceived that Mr. Stephenson's nominees seldom lost. He conducted campaigns with just the right combination of lavishness and precision; the Mayors of three important Indiana cities looked on him with great respect and the members of legislative committees called at his home before the day's session to see which bills were to be passed. To his legislators he gave orders rather than suggestions, but when he wrote to his Mayors he was careful to phrase his wishes in terms of a larger and collective power, the will of the Klan...
Meanwhile, Editor Adams had little success in stimulating either of the Senators Watson or Robinson, or Governor Jackson to start an investigation of "super-government" in Indiana. Last week Mr. Adams threatened to force the calling of a special session of the Indiana Senate to consider the impeachment of Governor Jackson, if he was not allowed to interview D. C. Stephenson. Later in the week, Prosecutor Will H. Remy, who had sent Mr. Stephenson to jail, called for a grand jury investigation of Indiana's grime...
...present session of the American Federation of Labor is a visible manifestation of the change of the spirit of the working man. The fiery contempt for all things smacking of privilege, the desire to tear down the established order of things, so notable in the resolutions of past Conventions, have all subsided and in their place has arisen a tendency toward, thoughtful study of labor and national problems. Labor is becoming civilized...
...Associated College Employment Officers' Conference is convening tomorrow at the Walker Memorial Building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Delegates from all the New England colleges have been invited, and, from the number that have accepted, a large gathering is anticipated. Mr. Daly will be chairman of the evening session, and the principal speaker at that time will be H. S. Dennison '99, President and Director of the Dennison Manufacturing Company Framingham...
...University football squad was the guest of the Metropolitan Theatre last night for an unusual blackboard session. The coaches hoped that the team might profit from Richard Dix's new college comedy. "The Quarterback," inasmuch as the cinema was directed by Coach Yost of the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor football mentor had full charge of coaching the screen teams and filming the production to which, the players were invited...