Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trade News. In São Paulo, Brazil, the Paulista Pugilistic Federation, meeting in conference, was forced to halt proceedings temporarily when the session turned into a free-for-all fist fight...
Woodland, Frankie Waldron fell in love. At the end of the session when Willie arrived to reclaim his wife, Frankie and Reggie had to tell him that he had arrived too late. Willie disconsolately went back to Los Angeles to immerse himself in party work and later got a divorce. Frankie and the new Mrs. Reggie Waldron returned from Woodland to set up Communist housekeeping in Southern California...
...bold, even risky step for the Secretary of State to take. Before the Senate could vote on the Atlantic pact (which requires a two-thirds majority), Acheson would be forced to ask a handout from a Congress which still hoped to get through the session without saddling a deficit on the country. If pact and handout were wrapped too tightly together, Acheson apparently feared, Congress might reject both. So Dean Acheson set out to prove that arms and the pact logically belonged together-but were really separate. It took some twisting of the tongue, even for a practiced diplomat...
...Cruz staged one plenary session in a mountain glen, with snow-capped peaks as a background. For other sessions, he ran wires from the flag-festooned auditorium of the Teatro Independencia to amplifiers in the main plaza. As a result, most of mystified Mendoza heard an overpowering discussion of existentialism...
During the current session a group of organizations petitioned the State Legislature for a measure that would end discrimination in Massachusetts educational institutions. Drafted as Senate 133, the bill came before the Education Committee on Monday, and, according to its backers, should "secure fair educational practice and equality of educational opportunity by preventing discrimination in education because of religion, race color, or national origin...