Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert L. Levy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, conducted extensive tests ... on the effects of cigarette smoking on the heart. At the 69th Annual Session of the American Medical Association on June 12, 1947, he said: "It has been our experience, over a period of years, that most patients with a cardiac disorder, including those with disease of the coronary arteries, can smoke moderately without apparent harm. In fact, for many, smoking not only affords pleasure but aids in promoting emotional stability...
...from 16 Midwestern states, whooping up the Brannan farm plan, which, to hear them tell it, would give the farmer a high income, the consumer low food prices, and the taxpayer practically no pain at all (TIME, April 18). There was almost no chance of its passing Congress this session, but the Democratic faithful didn't mind too much: they decided to make Brannan's dream scheme the major campaign issue of the 1950 congressional elections. Brannan had staked his own future on it and knew it. Said he: "For me, it'll mean either a palace...
...Foreign Ministers' deputies were instructed to draft an Austrian treaty and submit it to their bosses no later than Sept. i. During the next U.N. Assembly session in New York in September, the Big Four would try to arrange for another Foreign Ministers' meeting. This was what diplomats call "keeping the door open...
...Hungary's neo-Gothic Parliament building the crowd cheered as Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi stalked in to open the session. He first walked around the red-plushed row of ministerial chairs to shake hands with each cabinet minister. One of the old familiar faces was missing -that of Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, wartime underground leader and once Hungary's dreaded Minister of the Interior. Since Rajk's name had headed the single list of candidates in his district, his election had seemed sure. When the rapporteur of the Mandate Credentials Committee omitted Rajk's name from...
...College rushed toward the close of academic year 1945-1949, the Dean's Office yesterday announced its last batch of prizes for the current session...