Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the morning he had conference with Republican Floor Leaders of the Senate ( Charles Curtis of Kansas) and of the House (John Q. Tilson of Connecticut). Both advised against an extra session of Congress. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, occupied most of the President's afternoon...
Call, or refuse to call, a special session of the Congress...
...Secret Session. Rumors resounded in Geneva as the 46th session of the League of Nations Council began its business behind; closed doors. Most of them, however, were more concerned with the Assembly (see above) than with what the secret Council meeting was or was not doing...
Proposal. Seiler Enrique Villegas (Chile), President of the League Council, astounded Geneva when he virtually declared in a public session that he saw no reason why the League should not interest itself in Latin-American affairs. It was even thought that the League might be asked to settle the long outstanding Tacna-Arica dispute (TIME, June 21, 28, 1926). Said British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain: "The League of Nations must become a reality, a personality in the eyes of the more distant nations belonging...
Congress Opened. Applauded by the public (politicians and peons alike), President Plutarco Elias Calles of the United States of Mexico rode in an open landau through the streets of Mexico City to open the 32nd session of the National Congress...