Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President by about two months and a half, and the usual interval of 13 months between the election of a Congress and its assembling to about two months. Incidentally it would do away with the short term* in which filibusters are so effective, and by having a new session begin immediately after a new Congress is elected would do away with the "Lame Duck" legislators...
...short term session comes every second year, every other session ordinarily is "short." Congress always meets in December. Its term in office ends every second year on the fourth of March. Unless the President calls an extra session, all necessary business, including the passage, of appropriation bills, must be done in the intervening three months, less the Christmas holidays...
...annual expenditure in the last two years. Senator Warren went on: "We have four or more investigations now in process, which; up to the present have reached proportions from $11,600 to $124,000 plus. These are for investigations authorized and begun before the opening of the present session of Congress. What the total of these last may reach is unknown at present, although it is presumed that they are near their close. But, even during the last month, in one case one man drew a salary of $1,300 for that one month's service, the same...
...mandated territories of Syria and Libya. Count Robert de Caix, Secretary-General of the French High Commission in Syria, and Count Gaston Clauzel, Director of the French Service of the League of Nations, did their best to explain why the French bombarded Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9). The session was naturally behind closed doors, but attentive listeners heard enough to evolve the catch phrase: "For the first time in history a Great Colonial Power is being cross-examined with regard to its treatment of a Weaker Nation." Cynics smiled...
19½ Hours. At 11 a. m., early in the week, the Deputies seated themselves for what was scheduled to be the show-down session on the tax measures which they have been considering so long. At 6:30 a. m. next morning the Deputies out, after having literally hashed all the measures presented to them into such a jumble that the greatest fiscal experts in France disagreed by hundreds of thousands of francs as to what revenue the resulting bill would produce. None the less, the Deputies passed it and gave Premier Briand a vote of confidence, 258 to 145?...