Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state capital 15 months ago. While voters grumbled that he had fallen flat on his campaign promises, his own Republican state legislature bucked off every reform proposal like an unbroken pony with a burr under the saddle. Last week, on the final night of a wild & woolly special session, Kim Sigler dug in the spurs...
Stalking into a joint session of both houses, he raked into the hides of "certain obstructionists" who had stampeded his program. They had ignored his plan to increase the terms of state officials from two to four years and his proposed constitutional amendment to reorganize the state's 100-odd commissions, boards and bureaus under tight executive control...
...their final session, the delegates to the Inter-American conference rode out of scarred Bogotá to the white-walled home of the first Pan American. A chill Andean drizzle fell as they gathered at the Quinta de Bolivar to sip champagne and then duck by turns into the Liberator's dark dining room to sign their treaties and conventions. As each delegate signed, a band in the patio struck up his national anthem. Halfway through, the electricity faltered, and Uruguay signed by the flickering light of a candelabra...
...night, without notifying his bosses, Hawthorne suddenly turned his show into a carefree, wit-loose "Hellzapoppin on the air." Next day, before the station had time to fire him, the place was snowed under with fan mail. By last week, the scattyboo platter session was being broadcast over five Southern California stations ("the net-to-net coastwork of the Oh-So-Peachy-Keen Broadcasting Company"). Both ABC and Mutual were dickering for national network rights. Hawthorne's salary is now $450 a week...
...lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are overworked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed-jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which has proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...