Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate's Republican Policy Committee unlimbered a heavy-caliber political weapon last week. To clear the way for a Republican President next January, it announced that the Senate would confirm no more presidential appointments before the session's end. The decision affected some 1,000 civilian vacancies, 859 of them postmasterships. The only exceptions would be for the military and for Cabinet officers...
...their own defense, Republicans pointed out that in 1932 a Democratic Congress had ignored 1,727 of Herbert Hoover's 2,903 appointees. But that was in a lame-duck session after Hoover had already been defeated for reelection. With President Truman already hard-pressed to find good men for Government jobs, the Republican decision meant that he would find it even harder to fill interim vacancies for the next eight months...
This paradox, and the propaganda piffle which surrounded it, was bound to baffle almost anyone in or out of this world. Even such worldlings as the U.S. Embassy staff in Paris were confused-Ambassador Jefferson Caffery last week found it necessary to summon them all to a special briefing session. How could you explain the situation to a plain American, or a Frenchman-or to a man from Mars? The situation was really sublimely simple...
...Winner. Even for tough old Sewell Avery this was too much. He hastily called a special meeting of directors to try to prevent the walkout of his brass. After a five-hour session with the board, Avery got the insurgents to withdraw their resignations and go back to work. Their terms: a change in the company's bylaws to give President Norton (and not Chairman Avery) "general executive authority . . . over the entire business and affairs of the corporation," subject only to the board's control. Crowed one executive: "It's the beginning of the end for Sewell...
Second Wave. Next day the Exchange was again swamped with buying. Records fell right & left. In Saturday's brief two-hour session, 2,590,000 shares changed hands-the biggest Saturday turnover since the feverish beginnings of NRA in 1933. As in the hectic days of 1929, single blocs of 3,000 shares and more changed hands without driving down the price (e.g., Packard Motor closed up ⅛ after one bloc of 21,000 shares was sold...