Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birthday (150th) of their party's father. But, to the outrage of Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, the Democrats stole the Lincoln Day show by laying on the biggest celebration of them all, right there in Washington. Democratic leaders in both houses set up a solemn joint session to hear the U.S. Army band play patriotic tunes, the U.S. Coast Guard cadet chorus sing Civil War songs (Dixie, Battle Hymn of the Republic), and Actor Fredric March read the Gettysburg Address...
...faces will be different," said Arkansas' John McClellan as he gaveled his Senate labor-racketeering committee into session last week, but "the basic, underlying methods of operation will be greatly similar." McClellan expected to prove during a four-week investigation of the nation's $2 billion-a-year coin-machine industry that: 1) organized thugs are successfully moving in on big-city coin-machine operations, especially in the jukebox business and in pinball games; 2) principal tool of the thugs is the corrupt labor union, endowed with all the protection extended by law to legitimate labor. Said McClellan...
...Travel. In Burbank, Calif., police confiscated Tom Harper's .22-cal. frontier pistol after he shot himself in the leg while practicing fast draws, next day during another practice session pinked his wife on the abdomen...
...last count, California's Ziffren seemed to have the votes to hold onto the convention for Los Angeles when the full committee meets late this month. But before the session is over, there may be a fascinating preview of the sort of fighting the U.S. can expect...
...successful was Stony Point's appeal to adventure that the United Presbyterians are planning a similar session for students in the spring and two larger conferences next year...