Word: sessional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scene of an extraordinary mock session staged for the benefit of 859 U. S. college preceptors visiting London under the auspices of the Art Trust Guild of Chicago. Sir Samuel Chapman, M. P., and Lady Astor enacted, during a recess of the House, the respective roles of a mock-Speaker and a mock-Clydside Laborite extremist. "Attaboy!" shouted many a U. S. savant as the Right Honorable Lady refused to desist from her ex tempore harangue on War debts when called to order by "Speaker" Chapman. Eventually she subsided as her fellow M. P.'s trooped back into...
...President to receive power to: 1) Dissolve the Sejm (Parliament) and Senate; 2)Rule by decree when Parliament is not in session; 3) Rule by decree, in any case, until January...
Plans for the crusade are still incomplete. Committees are in session; campaigns are being planned. But so much is known: 200 evangelists, picked men, well trained, will go two by two into the dioceses. And before them, to spread the word, will go Bishop Darst...
...program of building up the army and navy, of restoring the public buildings and monuments of Rome and other Italian cities to the splendor of Augustan days. Missing Minister. Though Mussolini sped the issuance of his Cabinet's decrees behind locked portals, the reported absence from this vital session of Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni loomed of major import. Signor Federzoni is suave, aristocratic, bland. His voice has a low vibrant timbre, which engenders fear. It is well known that he attends Mass every morning before seeking his Ministry. Perhaps less known is the fact that in the councils...
...this was brought about, all this endured, because in 1924 the youthful scapegrace of the family, Daisuke Namba, attempted to slay Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan (TIME, Jan. 7, 1924). Though Daisuke was found guilty at an extraordinary session of the Supreme Court and hanged, his father, broken with grief and shame, resigned from the Diet, and enjoined upon his family and himself a voluntary retirement until Death should harvest their lives...