Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrived: Mr. Woodlock's appointment had not been confirmed. Mr. Coolidge sent in his name to the special session of the new Congress. Administration Senators asked unanimous consent. A few Southerners refused, declaring they would talk the session into summer rather than confirm the appointment. The Senate adjourned without a vote...
...Parker Gilbert [Agent General of Reparations] to have the amount deducted from the reparations payments." The matter came to light, last week, when Secretary General of the League, Sir Eric Drummond, informed the Agent General and the German Government that the Council will discuss in its June session Germany's failure to pay its debt to Poland...
...first session of the Skupstina (National Assembly) at Belgrade was as stormy as an agitated hornets' nest. Premier Nicolai Pashitch and his colleagues had, some time before, been pained to discover that Stefan Raditch's Croatian Party, which they had tried to outlaw,- was 67 strong in the Skupstina. A committee was formed to decide the legality of the election of the 67; and its decision (declaring 61 of them illegal) passed its first reading in the Chamber. It was this that caused fury to be unfurled...
...verses from the Bible shall be read or caused to be read without comment at the opening of each and every public school upon each and every day by the teacher in charge, provided the teacher does not read the same chapter more than twice during the same session...
Having been in special session for 13 days, the Senate of the 69th Congress was very anxious to get home. With the matter of the Attorney Generalship disposed of, there was not much to keep it. The day after that was finished, the Senate met at noon. Only a few Senators were on the floor. The President sent in 28 new nominations for confirmation. Among them was the name of Thomas F. Woodlock of Manhattan, nominated to the Interstate Commerce Commission. His name had been submitted to the old Senate and not acted upon, principally because the South argued that...