Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prospect, and another six are placed as a few clubs each make the sacrifice and each consent to admit one lone hundred percenter (there to be pariah or sycophant for who knows how long). Above, in the library, like secret Teutonic Norns, the ICC meets in constant absolutely closed session, omnipotently spinning fate. Below them, twenty-three one hundred percents remain, half of them Jewish. In Valhalla's lofty and concealed recesses, the list is gone over name by name: where are these to be placed...
...through the hinterlands of Negro baseball. He never got over the fact that he was a grown man being paid to play a boy's game. "You know, I'll play for nothing if I have to," he once told a startled Dodger official during a contract session. "You can write in the numbers yourself...
Simple Questions. As the committee gathered in closed session, Texan Johnson pulled out of his pocket his proposed interim statement, already drafted. There he argued not with Republican members, but with Missouri's presidency-bound Democrat Stuart Symington, who nagged insistently for a hard-swinging attack on the Administration for its defense shortcomings. At length, Johnson (well aware that his own committee was no more anxious than the Administration for defense spending in the last "economy" session of Congress) carried the day-and happily so, for his report was both accurate and constructive...
...State of the Union message, the President had set himself a tight schedule by promising that he would have reorganization proposals ready for this session of Congress, then appeared to back down in his press conference. Taken aback by the impression of relaxation read into his press-conference statement, the President said in his G.O.P. speech in Chicago last week: "In this I intend to participate personally until the job is done." Three specific reform proposals have already reached his desk: 1) streamline McElroy 's own personal Defense Secretary operation, 2 *) give McElroy power to shift funds between services...
...that Alaskan Senators might turn out to be Republican after all. Informal polls in both House and Senate show that the Alaska statehood votes are in the majority. The balmy territory of Hawaii, once considered the hottest prospect for statehood, will probably be left out in the cold this session...