Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate last week experimented with confirming presidential nominations to the sub-Cabinet in open executive session. The subject of the experiment was Joseph Potter Cotton appointed Undersecretary of State by President Hoover. The experiment was not successful...
...experiment came early in a session one day last week. Barely a dozen Senators were on the floor when the Cotton nomination was publicly confirmed without roll-call or debate. Four hours later Montana's Senator Wheeler rushed upon the floor, made loud complaint, had the Cotton confirmation revoked, the nomination reconsidered. Sly Republican Leader Watson's comment: "This is the first fruit of open executive sessions...
...days later Mr. Cotton was reconfirmed to his post which ranks second only to that of Statesman Stimson himself?but this time, in the more usual closed executive session...
...vote took courage. The industrialists of Pennsylvania, led by Joseph R. Grundy. had demanded the high duties of this bill, and more. To defy them involved a man-sized political risk, even for a constitutionalist like Mr. Beck. The Philadelphia Congressman declared the whole policy of the extra session a "mistake," insisted that he had voted his "personal convictions," left his more orthodox Republican colleagues thoroughly startled by his independence, as he departed to Atlanta to tell the Georgia Bar Association that, like the Parthenon, the constitution was "still beautiful in its ruins...
...play a game of baffle among themselves. Some 500 members, amateur and professional, of the Society of American Magicians (total membership about 1,650), held their annual convention last week in Manhattan and brotherly baffling was the order of the hour. The magicians dined and danced. Then, in secret session, they baffled each other and exchanged secrets about new or improved apparatus, magicianly "patter" (conversation) and humor, the art of distracting the attention of the tricked from the trickery...