Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down went Housing, 193-166. And down with it went the House's bloodlust. By Saturday, when Adams sent back the Deficiency bill, the House was relaxed, approved it swiftly. Leaders tried to soothe the session's accumulated seven-months bitterness. In the House they succeeded, in the Senate a diehard New Dealer, patent-leather-haired Claude Pepper of Florida, re-opened and salted afresh all the old wounds with a last-minute castigation of the anti-Administration "alliance." In words so cutting they skirted the edge of Senate rules he scourged the Republocrats for "putting personal grudge...
...verbal slugging, scrambling and hell-raising, most people forgot that the entire House situation was only shadowboxing, since the Senate could not and would not even begin action on wage-hour legislation at this session. But the intensity of the fight revealed more clearly than ever the New Deal's slipping grip on Capitol Hill...
...years since Lewis was a miner. *In his heyday, in an abandoned committee room known as "The Boar's Nest," Garner regularly nicked Nick Longworth, Ogden Mills, Joe Cannon-all since dead. His biggest winnings in any one session: $15,000. Biggest loss in any one night: $6,800. Average over the years: unknown but believed very good...
...Samuel apologized for introducing so important a measure late in the Parliamentary session, and in explanation produced a copy of the secret I.R.A. Staff "S Plan" captured during a police raid. This "remarkable document" outlined the strategy of terrorism and gave specific instructions on how to send bombs by parcel post, clog sewers with quick-drying cement, sabotage machines, and destroy public utilities. The campaign, the "S Plan" indicated, should reach its maximum effectiveness early next winter. M.P.s guffawed when Sir Samuel told of a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, but they were not amused when...
Willie Long Bone learned English at a Government school, fathered a son who graduated from Drake University. Recently Professor Charles Frederick Voegelin of DePauw University discovered Willie on his 80-acre allotment in Oklahoma, brought him to Ann Arbor for the summer session. Willie has already made some 50 phonographic recordings of Delaware songs and tales. Between performances he walks around the University of Michigan campus in faded overalls, a floppy straw hat. For his singsonging he gets $2 a day and expenses...