Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been frustrated, tormented. Last week he put his feelings on the public record. "We are going to be in a tough situation in 1960," he told a TV interviewer. "Quite a few Democrats around the country are unhappy about the progress that has been made in the first session [of Congress...
...chopped heavily into military assistance funds in cutting his $3.9 billion request for foreign aid authorization down to $3.5 billion. The Senate, he told his press conference, was "not taking into account the tremendous responsibilities of the U.S.," and he hinted that he might call a special session if military-aid cuts were not restored. And the Senate's Democratic leadership, including Bill Fulbright, was irritated and glum, because chances were good that when Senate and House conferees met to put together the final foreign aid bill, they would find Dwight Eisenhower's argument pretty hard to resist...
Delivering the keynote address of the first public session, to take place in Sanders Theatre, will be J. Bronowski, of the National Coal Board in England...
Trujillo, who had already charged at the U.N. that 25 Soviet "guerrilla warfare experts" were training 3,000 men in Pinar del Rio for Castro's Caribbean "subversive activities," reacted quickly. He had his OAS delegate demand a special session of the OAS council to ask for an investigation. Castro snapped back angrily that he would permit no "interference" in his territory...
...event, Reporter Mazo has already made one surefire contribution to campaign literature. Rocky and Nixon, he recalls, used to attend National Security Council meetings, and after one particularly critical session, Nelson Rockefeller wrote the Vice President: "You were superb. You have no idea of what your understanding, integrity, courage and leadership mean to so many...