Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fergusons stuck to their guns. Governess Ferguson announced positively that she would not call a special session of the legislature...
...about this special session they want me to call. They tried to camouflage it as an inquiry into the foot and mouth disease and tick eradication...
...prospect of the Speaker of the Legislature summoning an impeachment session, even that project was damped. By a legal anomaly, such a session would not have power to appropriate money for its own expenses. Speaker Lee Satterwhite announced that he has promises of private citizens to contribute $300,000 for the expenses of the session, and Jim Ferguson turned on him with the cry of "Slush fund!" In addition it was realized that, even if the state House of Representatives impeached the Governess, Jim Ferguson has probably sufficient strength in the Senate to prevent her being removed from office. Then...
Many a great statesman prepared to speed toward Geneva last week, as preparations for the December session of the Council of the League of Nations reached their final stage. Early comers were greeted by the following development...
...Late in the week, at 4:30 a. m. Mr. Neil McLean, Clydeside Laborite fire-eater, attempted to delay debate in the Commons by in- terjecting a motion calling for a secret session of the House-the first since the War period. Adroit, the Tories refused to heckle over the point, passed the motion in a flash, effectively cut Mr. McLean off from the public audience which he delights to entertain...