Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp contest between Governor Alfred E. Smith and former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, and adoption of a plank favoring American intrance into the League of Nations and World Court without reservation, featured the first session of the mock Democratic convention held last night in the New Lecture Hall. The convention will come to order tonight at 7.30 o'clock, and finish its work of adopting a platform and nominating candidates...
...these obstacles looked small last week and Chicagoans as well as Southerners counted on seeing Oscar De Priest's large, dusky figure in the House chamber next session. The last Negro Congressman was Representative George Henry White who served in the 55th and 56th Congresses from Tarboro, N. C. Before him there were 19 Negro Representatives and two Negro Senators. A majority of them were members of Reconstruction Congresses and men of small education. Ten, however, went to college; five were lawyers; others were preachers, teachers, planters. Seven were born slaves. Both the Senators were elected in Mississippi. Senator...
...again. He yielded stubbornly to their insistences and insisted on points of his own. The new week began with no one, not even President Coolidge, knowing whether Flood Control would be vetoed. Almost like a portent, there went from the White House to Congress the first veto message* this session. In it, President Coolidge disapproved a House bill to create a part-civilian board to supervise national rifle matches. The President said he was advised the bill was unconstitutional since it took from the War Department a matter pertaining to national defense and established a nonFederal agency "to perform Federal...
...veto message is not to be confused with a veto. President Coolidge has, of course, vetoed other bills this session without explaining his reasons to Congress at formal length. For example, he vetoed a bill to increase Civil War pensions. As a result, the Pennsylvania Northeastern Association of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic assembled and proclaimed "that the said Calvin Coolidge wears A CORONET OF SHAME...
Turning their prows upstream yesterday, the University crews found the straight stretches unusually calm and were able to spend a stiff practice session on racing starts and short competitive pulls in preparation for the M. I. T. races this Saturday...