Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reminded by the Red Cross that 71,052 refugees from last year's flood were still being fed and sheltered by charity in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, President Coolidge evinced an ever-increasing. desire to have Congress get a flood measure passed this session. He looked upon the measure drafted and reported by Chairman Jones of the Senate Commerce Committee and found some good in it, since it recognized the principle of local contribution and since it placed Chief of Engineers Jadwin, and a civilian engineer to be appointed by the President, on a board of three (with...
...education might be devised. Of the possibilities which are open I mention two. First, a student might, by arrangement with his department, or tutor, or both, investigate into a field which interests him and which the pressure of course work does not allow him to pursue in the regular session. Second, as has been suggested in several courses, students might read in some special topic connected with the subject of a course. Louis Harap...
...then chiefly to make a point of order, remind his colleagues that they have strayed far from the matter theoretically under discussion, call for a vote, or move an adjournment. His legislative efforts, if they can be called legislative efforts, are chiefly of a domestic nature. In the last session of Congress he introduced seventy-six bills. Sixty-nine of them were pension bills. Five were bills to settle private claims. One was a bill to provide an Indian memorial at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. And the other was a bill to create the most innocuous of all farm boards...
...thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association will take place on Saturday, March 17. The morning session will be held in Sanders Theatre at 10 o'clock. The luncheon will take place at the Commander Hotel. Both sessions are open to the public...
Newton D. Baker, onetime Secretary of War, addressed the closing session of a Washington conference of the Association of Community Chests and Councils. He said: "Private philanthropy should not undertake anything which the State can do as well...