Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rarely in peacetime had a Cabinet session been so charged with talk of wide-ranging travel, wide-ranging hopes-and a mood of crossed fingers. From the two dozen members of the President's official family and staff, ranged around the big hexagonal table in the White House's Cabinet room, Vice President Nixon got a rare burst of applause for his hour-long report on his fortnight behind the Iron Curtain. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, back from Geneva and scheduled to take off this week for a meeting of the American republics' foreign ministers...
...theatrical scrapbook," entitled "Merely Players," will have its American premiere Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium. Sponsored by the M.I.T. Summer Session, this is one of a series of Special Events in the Arts, some of which have been offered jointly with the Harvard Summer School...
...flew off to the Big Island to watch an eruption along the slopes of Mauna Loa. While the Democrats fiddled, crusty, Eisenhower-appointed Territorial Governor Sam Wilder King sat back and waited for them to run out of time. On the 50th day of the prescribed, 60-day 1955 session, Sam King vetoed the only two Democratic bills. This so disorganized the bewildered Democrats that they squabbled along to the end of the session, had to stop the legislative clock while they fought in vain to override the vetoes. Legally, April 29, 1955 remained April 29th for 28 days...
Fearing that the murder might break Lebanon's tenuous internal peace, the Cabinet met in emergency session, attended Moghabghab's state funeral en masse. The army was recalled from maneuvers, dispatched to the Chouf. Ex-President Chamoun berated the government for failing to protect his friend. Chieftain Jumblatt offered his tepid regrets ("It was fate's will...
...critical committee session, Arizona's Stewart Udall and New Jersey's Frank Thompson Jr. rallied the ten Rayburn Democrats behind the relatively adequate committee bill. They teamed themselves with Republicans, sometimes with union-bloc Democrats to kill off seven substitute bills offered in fast succession. In the final vote, Republican Boss Halleck provided six Republicans to side with the Rayburn Democrats (with still another Republican safetyman ready to switch if necessary) and vote out the committee bill...