Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman asked the special session of Congress only for interim aid to Europe. He does not expect to present the "Marshall Plan" until the regular session convenes in January. Most Congressmen will probably go along with the President in matters relating to foreign aid. The necessity for such aid is generally conceded and the only argument is likely to be over ways and means for financing and administering...
...tone and temper of the current special session show that Congressmen know aid to Europe is needed," William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and staff director for the Herter Committee, declared yesterday...
...some Republicans were even willing to postpone the tax fight in order to get on with the aid program. Speaker of the House Joe Martin announced that as far as he was concerned, G.O.P. tax legislation would not be introduced until the regular session in January. Harry Truman did his part by announcing that price legislation need not have priority over foreign aid. Everyone was dedicated to the great deed...
...President had set them at it. In summoning Congress to a special session, he had promised to recommend some "adequate measures" to deal with inflation. Now he had to produce. He had called in his advisers...
...last favorable tide began to ebb, the union leaders made one desperate final effort to win the men back from Murphy's sway. "Listen," one of them shouted, "if you'll take the ship out on the tide, you can turn this meeting into an executive session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum...