Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recession. Optimistic over the week's economic reports, the President preached less hurry-up spending, quietly opposed any quick tax cut, inspired G.O.P. congressional leaders to brace at last against the avalanche of Democratic antirecession bills and win their biggest legislative battle of the session...
Nowhere was the mood of the week better displayed than at the President's news conference. Visibly buoyed by the capital's warming weather, he opened the session with a reference to haunting lines of the Song of Solomon: "The winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.'' Ike looked well and obviously felt well: for the next 30 minutes he staged a performance that turned...
...Hamburg the executive committee of the powerful Trade Union Federation met for seven hours in an emergency session. Though it refused to call for a general strike (as some had urged), it called upon its 6,000,000 members to stage demonstrations against nuclear arming, came out in favor of a plebiscite on the whole question. As 48,000 names were added to an antibomb petition circulating through twelve universities, 500 students from the Hamburg Engineering School marched silently through the Old City with placards saying "Remember Hiroshima!" Dock workers in Hamburg and auto workers in Brunswick went...
...could not shoot the defendant even then. But as it turned out, Judge English did not object when the Omaha World-Herald quietly photographed Defendant George D. Jones in the courtroom during recesses, or when TV cameras caught him from the corridor while the trial was actually in session. Nor did Judge English complain when TV and World-Herald cameramen whirled and clicked while the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. But 60 miles away in Lincoln, State Attorney General Clarence S. Beck watched a TV film of the scene and exploded ("There...
...fact, considered to be the outstanding presiding officer in his or any other church; with Roberts' Rules of Order at his fingertips and a mind like an I.B.M. machine, he seems able to get purposeful action out of the most unpromising assembly. When he presided at the opening session of the constituting convention of the National Council of Churches in 1950, he insisted on no fewer than 44 amendments to the proposed constitution before permitting the United Lutherans to join. One lady delegate, sinking into her seat after missing one of the sessions, whispered to her neighbor: "What...