Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That an extraordinary session of the Havana city council had been called to rename Seventeenth Street in Havana, "President Coolidge Street...
...first plenary Conference session revealed the assininity of those who thought that open flaying of any nation was to be openly arrived at. Promptly the Cuban president of the Conference, Judge Antonio de Bustamante of the Hague Court, ruled that despite the "publicity" resolution the ordinary canons of procedure would apply. This meant that any session could be made secret by a two thirds vote of its members. Curiously enough, this ruling seemed to meet with the approval of most Latins. Since sagacious Mr. Hughes had called their outstanding bluff, they were as anxious as he to favor a procedure...
Tariff Talk. William H. McMaster, the South Dakota Senator who was so conspicuously not present during President Coolidge's visit to South Dakota last summer, started something last week. He may become a "hero" of the session...
...would have taken the I. C. C. another two or three years, perhaps. Meantime, the St. Paul's service would have continued to be an uncertainty instead of an enterprise. But if the I. C. C. could have assembled the St. Paul security-holders at once for an executive session, it would have pressed its objections to the plan engineered by suave Jerome J. Hanauer of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and associates of the National City Co., and Robert T. Swaine of the potent Manhattan law-firm of Cravath, Henderson & De Gersdorff. The objections...
...blaze a clear trail away from such catastrophic industrial follies will be the vital task of the new Conference. After three hours in secret session, last week, the leaders were optimistic. Said Mr. Turner: "Extraordinary successful! . . . The employers' proposals are exceedingly comprehensive. . . . We have entered these conversations without prejudice, committed only to the finding of a just and lasting solution of industrial problems." Said Sir Alfred Mond: "Most hopeful! . . . We have appointed a joint acting committee of investigation'' (to meet under the alternate chairmanship of Mr. Turner and Sir Alfred...