Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Acheson met with the Foreign Relations Committee in secret session, spent three hours going over the working draft of the pact. The only suggested changes, said one Senator, were a "phrase here and a word there." At week's end, Acheson called in the ambassadors of the North Atlantic countries, told them that they would have a pact with teeth in it after all, and with the full knowledge and consent of the Foreign Relations Committee. And in Norway, the ruling Labor Party gave unmistakable evidence that it thoroughly understood the alarums and excursions of parliamentary government...
...There was little of the excitement at yesterday's session, conducted before Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School and Governor Dever's special commission, that marked the hearing earlier in the month held by Commissioner of Correction Elliott E. McDowell. McDowell fired Dr. Van Waters on January...
...Committee, whose main duty is to arrange dance dates, met last Thursday and after a turbulent session voted no confidence in its chairman, John K. Lally '49, who was accused of failing to keep adequate records of agreements and of going over the heads of the rest of the Committee in policy decisions. Twenty-four hours later, after the story had reached the public, the Committee met again, this time off the record, and reversed its decision by voting confidence in Lally and asking him to receive in office...
Argument in Congress, after an 11-year history, is reaching its climax in this session with the inclusion of oil in the President's State of the Union message. Committee hearings on the controversy have attracted so many different issues,--states rights, conservation, and national defense--that the basic problem is often obscured...
Police estimated another 200 were turned away at the doors of the over-crowded session, which was sponsored by the newly created John Reed Club...