Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representatives (see THE CONGRESS). President Coolidge let the word go up Pennsylvania avenue that he was displeased and might veto the revenue act of 1928 if tax-cutting went too far. The Congress sent the President its $200,936,000 deficiency bill to sign- first major bill this session...
Officially the 47th session of the Council of the League of Nations was going forward at the League Secretariat; but smart correspondents watched closest the pageant of statesmen at Br'er Briand's inn. Countries...
...brought Marshal Pilsudski to Geneva; the Polish-Lithuanian frontier crisis (TIME, Dec. 12). Already M. Briand was in confidential possession of all the facts. On previous days he had several times received the Prime Minister of Lithuania, stocky, spiky-haired Professor Augustine Valdemaras. There had been a four-hour session of the League Council at which the issue had been argued hotly back and forth between M. Valdemaras and August Zaleski, Foreign Minister of Poland, who preceded Pilsudski to Geneva. The Council had even laid down provisional terms of settlement?terms not wholly agreed to by stubborn Prime Minister Valdemaras...
Thus the scene, and upon it Marshal Pilsudski must make his inevitably melodramatic appearance with good effect? not the reverse. During the afternoon and most of the evening JJ. Briand coached and perhaps coaxed the Marshal. Next morning the impromptu melodrama was played out at a secret session of the League Council. But details soon leaked...
...session began with Pilsudski and Valdemaras bristling silently at one another across the Council's horseshoe table, while the proposed details of settlement were droningly read. Suddenly Pilsudski interrupted in a hoarse voice: "Gentlemen, I have not heard the word peace mentioned. I came here to hear that word. If I do not hear it, I will return to a place where the word war may be heard...