Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State said, "The time for action is at hand." On the next day President Truman acted by calling a special session of Congress to meet November 17; and by this move revealed his conception of the Presidential office to be that of the "Tribune of the People," Mr. Truman's action was that of a strong President who relies on the fact of his election by the nation as a whole to give him authority to assume the moral leadership of the nation. This new role is not particularly consistent with the whole record of the Truman administration...
Congressional leaders in fact consider the special session as little more than an early opening of the regular session, and as such a forum for Presidential aspirants. Any vote-getting issue will be grist for the mill. In such an atmosphere unpopular items like allocation or price control will be assiduously avoided. The President's program is likely to get lost in the rush...
Frank Miklos, last year's second string blocking back behind Henry Goethals, was moved up to the quarterback post after tossing two scoring passes for the Jayvees against Dartmouth and held down that slot throughout the session...
...author of the Taft-Hartley Bill will sandwich the dining date between a talk to the National Association of Attorney Generals this morning and a speech tonight at the Boston City Club on the cost of living in relation with the President's call for a special congressional session...
Following an organizational meeting two weeks ago, the group, which now boasts 40 members, began a series of weekly intra-society debates on Wednesdays at 7:30 o'clock. The first session took place Wednesday, when craters tackled the problem of military conscription...