Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles Gibbons, Republican candidate for Governor, expressed party feeling as he attacked the Democrats for the unbalanced budget enacted in the latest Massachusetts legislative session...
Louisiana Democrats last week fired the first salvo in the internecine war that will harass Democrats in general and National Chairman Paul M. Butler in particular right through the 1960 presidential election. In Baton Rouge the state committee, in a raucous, televised session, fired their national committeeman, Camille F. Gravel, Jr., 43. Grounds: Lawyer Gravel loyally supported the national party's civil rights platform...
...Continued the U.S.'s own basic military buildup on Formosa itself-a buildup powerfully augmented last week by the arrival of the Army's Nike-Hercules ground-to-air atomic rockets; ¶ Persevered with the Warsaw talks, in their seventh session, between the U.S.'s Ambassador Jacob D. Beam and Red China's Ambassador Wang Ping-nan on how to make the cease-fire formal, even though Chinese Nationalists on Formosa termed the talks "futile...
...Idealism," sighed one delegate as the conference broke up, "has been wrecked on the rock of reality." Last man to learn of the wreckage was Organizer La Pira himself. At the very first session, he collapsed from overwork, for two days lay exhausted and comatose, while his delegates talked on but found no peace...
...student star in Much Ado About Nothing, Bing Crosby's dark-eyed spouse Kathy Grant, 24 (who used to be Olive Kathryn Grandstaff), established a scholarship for drama hopefuls at the University of Texas, which awarded her the degree of bachelor of fine arts at its 1956 summer session commencement...