Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Developments. M. Paul-Boncour (France) and Viscount Cecil (Britain) decorously renewed the argumentative contest over "potential" and "actual" disarmament which they voiced publicly at the December League Council session (TIME, Dec. 21). It was deemed prudent to thrash these differences out in committees, two of which were accordingly formed. Late despatches reported that the Japanese representative, Baron Matsudaira, was discussing privately with Mr. Gibson the possibility of another Washington naval conference...
Last fortnight Captain Frankau traveled to St. Louis. It seemed a good place to proclaim what sound old Tories were thinking over their port in the London clubs. Incidentally, a convention of U. S. booksellers was in session there, to whom Frankau, who maintains that the national significance** of his novels has impressed "every one who can read in the British Isles," would just say a word...
...exasperated editor might perpetrate a hoax of this sort. But he will never meddle with a religious subject. That was left to a Canadian Modernist during the ten-day session of the World's Christian Fundamentals Association at Toronto the beginning of the month. W. Harold Young, a Canadian correspondent of the Christian Century, gleefully tells the story in the current issue of that periodical...
...What kind of bill was killed by the President's first veto at this session of Congress...
Each year when the Chamber of Commerce of the United States gathers in annual session (it did so last week and re-elected John W. O'Leary of Chicago president) it passes a set of resolutions directed chiefly at Congress and the Administration...