Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress went through the motions of considering the President's special-session message-but the motions were perfunctory. Seven hours after Harry Truman had left Capitol Hill, congressional Republicans flatly announced-with the approval of Candidate Tom Dewey-that "our efforts will be devoted to completing the session as soon as possible...
...rift was deep enough to keep the Yugoslav Communist Party congress in session until 2 a.m., denouncing the Cominform, on the night before a ten-nation Danube conference met in Belgrade. Marshal Tito turned his back on the Danube conference, dominated by the Russians, and went off to resume the vacation at Bled which had been interrupted by the Cominform attack on him. Belgrade's greeting to the Danubian delegates was notably cool-no outsize pictures of Soviet leaders, no special triumphal arches in the streets...
There was little to do after that. On Sunday, at the closing session, Gailmor in stentorian tones intoned the platform text to the delegates. Several innocuous amendments were offered and voted upon. A faint glimmer of opposition and dissatisfaction, smoldering among some delegates, flickered on the floor...
...afternoon session on the convention's last day, after the party's platform has been drawn up, Gordon Fogo will read the names of the nominees to the convention. He hopes to read the names fast enough to block any unseemly demonstration. Says Fogo in a political paraphrase of a classic line: "In my job you have to be like Caesar's wife, playing no favorites...
...painful hour last week, Candidate Henry Wallace met the press-and seemed to do his best to discredit himself completely with it. Publicists for his "Progressive Party" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had hopefully billed the session in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel as a press conference, but it quickly degenerated into a battle between a pale, harried Wallace and red-faced, angry newsmen...