Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grow worse and worse every day. In Teheran people took refuge in the telegraph office and some in the Military School. Parliament who paid no attention at the beginning was obliged to take an immediate and a very effective measure about the people's demand. Therefore at the session of 9th Aban, Oct. 31, it was proposed and sanctioned by 80 votes against 5 to depose Sultan Ahmad Shah from the throne of Persia and cancel forever the dynasty of Kajars. Meanwhile Reza Khan Pahlavi, the Prime Minister and Commander in Chief of all Persia's force, will...
...group of Senators and Representatives called to inform the President that Congress was in session and ready to receive any communications which the President cared to submit. The President submitted: 1) his message to Congress, 2) his budget recommendations and 3) a long list of nominations for confirmation, at the head of which stood the name of Dwight Filley Davis to be Secretary...
...Government for three years: briefly with the fiscal year of 1925 (closed last June) and the fiscal year of 1926 (now in progress, closing next June), and more at length with the fiscal year of 1927 (beginning next July), for which appropriations will be made at this session of Congress...
After a stormy session the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission adopted a motion presented by its chairman, General John J. Pershing, in which April 15, 1926, is definitely established as the date for holding the long-delayed plebiscite to determine whether Chile or Peru shall have Tacna-Arica. The motion opens with a preamble scoring Chile, of which Tacna-Arica is now a province for obstructing the efforts of the Commission to prepare for a free and unbiased plebiscite. Chile is specifically charged with having violated the terms laid down by President Coolidge as arbiter* of the dispute. Further, Chile...
...confirmed cynics know the annual hope that sees Congress reassemble. . It rises of itself. The childishness of men which thrills to "let's begin all over again", reacts to even so earthly a thing as American politics. Sometimes, too, pre-session rumors rouse the public to believe that something more than politics is to reign that some crusade has ardent champions. December brings not only Yuletide cheer, but also a holiday spirit toward politics; and a sense of possibilities...