Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, there was increased clamor for a special session of Congress to consider more aid to Europe (see Foreign Relations). Harry Truman, still at sea, let it be known that he was not yet in favor of a special session. After all, it might be a perilous move. Unless the session were assured of success, it might be better not to call it. Not to hold it might be even more dangerous...
Nobody relished the idea of a special session of Congress. But last week the U.S. had the word of Secretary of State Marshall that Congress alone could give Western Europe the stopgap help it needs "to meet the immediate threat of intolerable hunger and cold." The situation, said George Marshall, requires "urgent consideration." This was taken to mean: a special session some time in November, at the latest...
...last, at a plenary session of the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee, the girls found listeners. "I can't speak," said lissome Meng Yen, her eyes moist with emotion. "I can only use my tears to express my feelings...
...Chicago Board of Trade is not under federal regulation of its margin requirements. But it was jittery; attacks like Flanders' might bring regulation. Shortly after Flanders' statement, grain prices had their sharpest break in days; wheat fell 10 to 12? a bushel. As the session ended, the Board's directors, who increased margins the week before, voluntarily upped them again, from 35? to 45? a bushel for corn and wheat. That brought the margin to about 17%. But at week's end, grain prices crept back up again. Plainly, speculation was not the only devil...
Local entrepreneur, sportsman, and presser of men's pants, Benjamin Jacobson, was definitely nor the least interested spectator at the opening session of Dick Harlow's course in character building. Benny, resplendant in blue blazer, gilt buttons, and gray fiannels, felt that "with a few breaks and a bottle of Energine we ought to keep a clean slate...