Word: sessions
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...libel judgment, Powell for months has been subject to arrest and a year's imprisonment if he entered the state. He was safe on Sundays, though, because the case did not involve criminal contempt, and his congressional immunity protected him whenever the House was in session. But Powell was recently held in criminal contempt as well as civil contempt, and State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Markewich last week issued an order for his arrest on "any day"-including Sundays and days when Congress is meeting. The chairman of the powerful House Education and Labor Committee was an outlaw...
CHICAGO, Dec. 7 -- Only parliamentary legerdemain today kept proponents of a volunteer army from taking control of the concluding session of the draft conference here...
...week, sitting around a table in Building E-1 at the Med School, each pair had to describe how they would have gone about solving their crime and give a reasonable explanation of it. Parker A. Glass, of the Department of Legal Medicine and chairman of the session, sat at the head of the table, a large loose-leaf notebook with information on all the cases opened before him. He cross-examined the detectives as they presented their theories, asking an unexpected question or pointing out some obscure, overlooked detail...
...Executive Council is frequently accused of being the obstructionist pawn of the state's Democratic legislative leadership. It could demonstrate independence as well as wisdom tomorrow afternoon by advising the Governor to proclaim a special session of the General Court...
...resolutions which were drafted in the last hours of the plenary session were an attempt to reconcile two factions: those who wanted a simple condemnation of forced conscription, and others who were willing to condemn the involuntary system, but wanted to include concrete reforms -- in the likely event that Congress didn't accept the idea of voluntary service...