Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...session was just three days old when Senator Vandenberg's committee reported out the bill authorizing interim aid up to $597 million-exactly what the Administration had asked...
...wished nothing to stand above their sovereignty. And why was that? Because these nations did not recognize, as individuals within a nation did, the same basic laws; they were not parts of the same society. The Communist leaders had known this for 40 years; the 1947 U.N. Assembly session learned it, somewhat reluctantly...
...billion in 1947's first nine months) and Canadian exports to the U.S. ($733 million in the same period). What about a permanent cure? Finance Minister Abbott had the beginnings of one. Under a new order-in-council, which will be shored up and clarified at the coming session of Canada's Parliament, the government is going to try to make a dream come true. The dream: a more highly industrialized Dominion that will make many of the goods now bought abroad, chiefly from...
...leaving office. The new city council (25 Gaullists, 24 Communists, nine Socialists, five Popular Republicans) had merely let the decree go through. Nevertheless Red labor leaders summoned workers to the city hall to demonstrate against the fare increase. Two days later, the new council was having its first plenary session at the City Hall. Glowering, stocky Jean Cristofol, the ousted Red mayor, fixed a baleful eye on Carlini, his Gaullist successor, and interrupted the preliminary business to demand an immediate discussion of the streetcar-fare boost. Carlini refused. Instantly the 24 "Cocos" began shouting abuse; one of them threw...
...storm gathered momentum. While the House buzzed with rumors, Attlee called a special Cabinet session, and Tory backbenchers called on Churchill to demand Dalton's head. In the evening, while Churchill was preparing a letter to Dalton demanding an inquiry, Attlee acted...