Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...viewed with alarm by President Hoover, who believes its basic statistics unsound. But said Mr. Hoover: "I naturally dislike the duty. . . . But the President of the United States must be the first to obey the law." An effort will be made to repeal national origins in the special session of Congress, if the President mentions it in his message...
...smiling prophet of woe, Indiana's Senator Watson, now Republican leader, went to the White House to tell President Hoover that the special session of Congress would probably extend through the summer and into the autumn. President Hoover heard this prediction without...
...loud as to prove a distraction in the latter and even to drown out a low-voiced lecturer in the former, while the air in the upstairs room seems to benefit not at all from the uproar when a large course such as Fine Arts 9a is in session...
...Mellon's next notable act was to issue a statement which, had the Congress been in session, must have raised the roof of the Capitol. Said Mr. Mellon: "This is a good time for the prudent investor to buy bonds. ... It is easier to pick out sound bonds than sound stocks" (see BUSINESS...
Consequently, charges were brought against him. Last week after a closed-door session, the Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal Conference exonerated him because he had "apologized'' and explained that he knew very little of the Kresge divorce story...