Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...26th special session in U.S. history and the first since September 1939, when Roosevelt called one to revise the Neutrality...
...most important news of the week, no doubt, was the President's call for a special session of Congress. The most sensational, unquestionably, was the Hollywood hearing in Washington. In the long run, it might turn out that the sensational, for once, had the greater significance. It concerned Americans just as much and possibly more than aid to Europe and the price of eggs...
...Republican campaign for an income-tax cut, noisily led by Minnesota's Harold Knutson (who insisted that taxes should be the No. 1 business at the special session), got unexpected support last week from a distinguished scholar. Speaking in Boston, Harvard's President James B. Conant reminded the U.S. people that taxes are a powerful tool in shaping the U.S. social and political structure...
...even if Congress were to change its heart, there was no likelihood that it could do so before the regular session in January. By January, if the winter was hard, there would be snowdrifts on the reservation and many of the children and old men would be dead...
...music of proud tarantaras. Royal Artillerymen in bearskins and tunics heavy with gold fired salutes from the park, while cavalrymen with gleaming, upraised sabers marched jet black steeds. From Buckingham Palace in gilded coaches came Their Majesties, King George, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth, to open the third session of Parliament under the Labor Government...