Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday's registration session and an informal soiree that evening at which the 'Cliffedwellers meet Harvard '52 mark the end of Orientation...
Side-Aisle Stuff. In other years the Commies had fraternized with the other lads, drinking, gossiping and partying with them and staying at the same hotels. Last week, after each day's session, the Commies went off by themselves to their own hangouts. For parliamentary maneuvers, they had devised a set of hand signals like those used by the "tick tack men" (gamblers' signalmen) at British race tracks...
After the session one of the delegates said to Deakin, "Brother, you spilled a bellyful." Replied Deakin, "Brother, that's only the beginning...
...Federal Reserve Board pulled in another notch in the nation's credit belt last week. It ordered its 7,000 member banks to put up some $1.9 billion in additional reserves. It was the second time FRB had used the new anti-inflation powers granted by the special session. (The first was tightening of installment credit, which goes into effect next week.) As banks lend about $6 for every dollar they have on deposit, FRB's order, in effect, cut the lending power of banks about $12 billion...
...kings arrived. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky rode in a '39 La Salle with baby-blue window curtains. General Lucius Clay was late, bounded up the steps whistling a vague tune. With Britain's Sir Brian Robertson and France's Koenig, they sat down to a hard bargaining session. The meeting, though suddenly called, had not required much preparation: the conference room had been kept scrubbed and polished-just in case the military governors, who had not used it for 23 weeks, might come back. Nor had the delegates needed much briefing to start their wrangling over the same...