Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drop the Handkerchief." From the beginning of the session, complained Majority Leader Scott Lucas, "I learned that not much speed could be made by trying to make haste, and that we must let nature take its course in the Senate." Well, the Democrats had a 54-member majority in the Senate, didn't they, asked Indiana's Homer Capehart. Why didn't they get down to business instead of "playing politics, fooling the American people, and playing drop the handkerchief...
This week, after a cabinet session which approved a final statement of British policy at the conference, Cripps and Bevin headed for Washington. En route, aboard the Mauretania, they would whip their arguments into final shape...
Called into an emergency midnight session, Congress by morning passed a law giving the President extraordinary powers to arrest, to impose censorship, and to restrict the right of assembly. Gonzalez, who had been up all night, signed the law at 7:30 a.m. The first arrested was former Communist Deputy Humberto Abarca...
...beautiful Baptist mission worker, Miss Lacey, whose well-modulated voice converted Maggie from a self-pitying brat to a self-sacrificing angel. As the program ended, the listeners began hurling comment and criticism at the head of Chicago Theological Seminary's Professor Ross Snyder, moderator of the session and co-chairman of Chicago's Religious Radio Workshop...
...Techniques. This week, the Workshop wound up its fourth annual month-long session in Chicago. Along with smaller subsidiary workshops held throughout the country, it is the answer of the Protestant Radio Commission to the problem of putting radio to work for religion. Through the workshops have gone the leaders of most U.S. denominational radio committees...