Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farm legislation in many forms will be presented. It is hardly expected that any important bill will pass; although some recommendations by the President's Agricultural Commission will probably be up for consideration towards the end of the session...
When Congress assembles on Dec. 1, it will be faced by a mass of legislation only a small part of which can be dispatched at the short session. Some of the major legislation that will be up for consideration...
...President let it be known definitely that he would not propose new tax cuts to Congress at least until the close of the present fiscal year (June 30) when the Government's books can be balanced to show the net result of the present tax law. Consequently, no extra session of Congress is in prospect...
...perished because of it, the 5,000,000 widows who survive it, the 9,000,000 orphans bereft through it, the 10,000,000 refugees who fled destitute before it," the passionate Baptist orator asseverated that "at any moment some wild-eyed militarist across the Pacific ... or some hysterical session of the Senate here may drop a spark into that powder barrel" which would disastrously involve "our sons, our daughters, our business, our security...
...good name covers a multitude of sins. Knowing this only too well, advocates of the government reorganization bill to be introduced at the December session of Congress, propose to establish a new cabinet post to be called "The Department of Education and Relief". The title has an intellectual and philanthropic ring which will commend it to many persons, but unfortunately it cannot be taken at face value...