Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, in the closing hours of the special session of the Senate, nominated James Garabaldi Sargent to be Attorney General, Peter Augustus Jay to be Ambassador to Argentina, Jacob Gould Schurman to be Ambassador to Germany, Ulysses Grant-Smith to be Minister to Uruguay, George L. Kreeck to be Minister to Paraguay, four additional members to the Board of Tax Appeals and Thomas F. Woodlock to the Interstate Commerce Commission. All except Mr. Woodlock were immediately confirmed...
...Senator Walsh in the Senate now- Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts has retired in favor of Senator Gillett, who defeated him last fall. *A recess appointment is a temporary appointment which the President has power to make when the Senate is not in session (Constitution of the United States, Art. II, Sect. 2, clause...
...obvious that the impression made by Mr. Chamberlain's well-reasoned reading of his Government's document was gloomy; as M. Briand subsequently put it: "I had the impression of being in blackness, in a tunnel where there was no light." Rising, however, in a later session, M. Priand, seven times Premier of France, vigorously assailed the British Government's contentions. He started...
...dispute between Poland and Danzig, called the "Mail Box Dispute" (TIME, Feb. 23), was referred for settlement to a special session of the World Court...
...allowed to make an explanation, but the Speaker replied that, in accordance with the rules of the House, he must abide by the Chairman's version of what had happened. He then put the motion to a vote without debate and Kirkwood's suspension for the present session was carried 245 to 119 votes...