Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European democracies all this looked suspiciously like the start of another frightening, methodical squeeze by the dictators. British stocks dropped, French bonds weakened, the Amsterdam market fell badly. The British Cabinet held a three-hour session, while British statesmen rushed about assuring their people that Great Britain would never, never give way to force. As the date of Führer Adolf Hitler's annual speech to the Reichstag approached (see p. 17), wild rumors circulated that the Führer would: 1) back up Friend Benito Mussolini in a Mediterranean showdown, 2) demand a redistribution of colonies...
Soon after he became majority leader of the Senate in 1937, Alben Barkley fell asleep at the political switch. He allowed the antilynching bill to be brought up for discussion and got his party in a jam in the closing hours of the session. Last week he nodded again-with less serious consequences...
...crisis was precipitated when in a bitter session U. A. W.'s international executive board (18 of whose 24 members led by Vice President Richard Frankensteen and Wyndham Mortimer opposed Martin) ousted President Martin as editor of the union paper, and canceled some of his administrative orders. He moaned to the press...
...executive board session which erupted last week was called primarily to demand from Homer Martin a report on what he and Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., were up to together in recent meetings (TIME. Nov. 23, et ante). The Mortimer-Frankensteen faction this week asked a circuit court in Detroit to restrain Homer Martin from consummating an "illegal conspiracy" with Ford "to disrupt the union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union...
...sworn in by Chief Justice Cureton of the State Supreme Court, Governor O'Daniel made a grave face. Said the showman Governor: "I pray that glamor and color will be eliminated from our legislative session and that seriousness and dignity will reign supreme...