Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heedful of President Hoover's call, the 71st Congress prepared to gather at the Capitol April 15 for its first or extraordinary session. Countless Congressmen remained in Washington after the Hoover Inaugural, but their consciences troubled them not at all at collecting from the U. S. their legal travel allowance of 20? a mile to carry them to their political homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system...
...articles. Behind them hung a rich red curtain, imperially crowned with great loops of gold. Before them was a spacious oblong room with white marble columns, a high vaulted ceiling, huge full-length windows. Outside heavy double doors, securely locked, depended a small sign, bearing the gilt lettering: "Executive Session." A blackamoor has lounged at the entrance to enforce the sign. The sitters within were Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives, their heads together on the forthcoming Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill...
Public hearings brought into this room 1,200 witnesses in 45 days who gave 11,000 printed pages of evidence on changing the 1922 Tariff Act. Now, preparatory to the special session of Congress, the majority members of this committee were writing an administration bill which would fulfill the Hoover campaign promises. The President wanted tariff revision limited to agricultural products and a few special but unnamed commodities. These G. O. P. committeemen were inclined to give him what he wanted. But outside the locked door, potent U. S. manufacturers ululated demands that all duty rates be promptly and emphatically...
...purpose of the spring session, according to Coach Carr, is to get in the ground-work for next fall, when there will be little time for dwelling on the fundamentals of the game...
...were chosen after yesterday's practice session in the new cage, where the team has been working out because of inclement weather. Nineteen men in all, six of them being pitchers, were retained from the squad of 40. These men, with perhaps a few additions, will compose the University squad for the entire season...