Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Thomas F. McMahon of the United Textile Workers of America wired Governor Richards: _ "National executive board United Textile Workers of America in session here today instructs me to say to you that this organization will hold Governor of State as chief police officer personally responsible for safety of our representatives John Peel and Vernon Allen while in your state. According to telegrams reaching us from Representative Peel today his life was threatened by thugs in the employ of textile corporations in Ware Shoals and the local police authorities in that place instead of affording Peel proper protection...
...will be his good friend, Ambassador Dawes. As Senator Edge was not immediately to take up his hard-won diplomatic assignment, the White House delayed official announcement of his appointment. The surface explanation: As a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Edge was needed through the special session to "help" President Hoover on tariff revision.* The real political reason: If Mr. Edge resigned from the Senate before Oct. 5. New Jersey voters under the law would pick his successor at a general election on Nov. 5. This would mean a cat-&-dog fight among New Jersey Republicans...
...Canada, hastened back to Hartford by airplane to "straighten out this mess." As he stepped out of the plane, he asked: "What's the matter? As soon as I get out of the state, you boys start raising hell." Promptly he summoned a special session of the legislature to repass en masse all the legislation voided by the court...
...resignation, the government with high-handed cloture put through a motion adjourning Parliament until autumn. This was done to throttle possibly mischievous polemics on the newly ratified debt settlement. But before M. Briand could form a cabinet he was obliged by custom to reconvoke the Chamber in special session, so that Parliament might endorse or reject his new government. Naturally a chamber just booted into adjournment
...present seemed to feel that the best thing next to do was to adjourn the meeting after a perfunctory session which lasted just three minutes...