Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longest session in Council history saw two major projects, the Service Fund drive and the poll on wheat conservation, fall short of their goals and the Council took immediate steps to prevent recurrence of the same problems in the future, salvaging what it could from the present...
...chief motive in seeing the President was to tell [him] that food commodity prices were too high, and that he should ask the special session of Congress to fix a price on wheat based on parity. I told him that, if this were not done . . . wheat could be priceless before another crop was delivered to market. I explained the fact to him and to reporters . . . that I knew only one neutral man in the U.S., and he is Uncle Sam. The Government is the only source of control which can establish a price fair to me, as a producer...
Lately, Big Jim has been touring the state, fulminating against the "gotrocks" and the "big city boys." He has been angling for the defeat of a "self-starter" amendment to Alabama's constitution which would permit the legislature to go into session without his permission. In this campaign he has used a new trick to get attention: he has literally been lying down...
...offer incense to the death of the Katayama cabinet," said one soused saboteur, as another slow-motion voting session started that evening. One scholarly Liberal slowly recited Hamlet's "To be or not to be" in Japanese as he stood poised over the ballot box, waving a yes ballot and a no ballot in either hand. A wild fist-swinging melee began when opposition shock troops tried to rush the Speaker's rostrum...
...Hangover. At another session Delegate Hiroshi Kanada, orating against the control bill, exceeded the 20-minute limit, refused the Speaker's order to cease. Said he: "In America a representative holds a record for filibustering for two and a half days. I am ready to talk from four to five days." When the Speaker ordered him ejected, Kanada put up the best fight of the three-day battle, holding out against the Diet guards for a full half-hour. His colleagues joined in, kicking, slapping, yelling and throwing salted beans, gumdrops and a wooden pyramided name tablet...