Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received last week to send a U. S. representative to Geneva, Sept. 1, to discuss under the auspices of the League the Senate's World Court reservations with the nations concerned (see THE LEAGUE, p. 10). ¶ The President published abroad his desire for coal legislation during the present session of Congress. He wants a law enabling the President to appoint mediation boards and authorizing Federal coal administration in case of shortage. ¶ Dressed entirely in white and wearing a corsage bouquet of violets and orchids, Mrs. Coolidge accompanied the President to 11 o'clock Easter service at the First...
...Senator may be expelled for revealing the proceedings of an executive session. Senator Bingham thought one Senator had been. He was wrong. In 1844, Senator Benjamin Tappan of Ohio, after deep apologies, was forgiven for having divulged confidential information to newspapers. It has long been the custom of the Senate tacitly to permit a Senator to tell how he himself voted in secret session. Thus Senator Overman of North Carolina jubilantly boasts he voted against Mr. Woodlock...
Lofty quotations from John Marshall ("the greatest judge over English-speaking peoples") and phrases of the latter (such as one which implies human descent from dogs) mingled last week in the most heated debate of the present session of the House of Representatives. After three days of it, the House impeached, 306-62, Federal Judge George Washington English on five counts, which in effect, are: 1, 5) Tyrannical, coarse, indecent manner and abuse of power...
Woodbridge, Head Chairman of the undergraduate committees in charge of the arrangements for the day, has made plans for visitors to be shown about the University between the morning session and the luncheon by especially designated groups of undergraduates. The athletic and evening entertainment programs for the day, as well as further personnel of the undergraduate committees will be announced next week
...international character of the Congress will be emphasized not only in its personnel, but in its deliberations, one session, being devoted to a discussion of the topic of "Philosophy and International Relations," and another to a summary of present tendencies of thought in the different countries represented...