Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public session, the Council met for a mere 22 minutes. Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci tried to slip by his colleagues a motion calling for a 10 per cent raise in all city salaries. Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler weakened the motion by changing its wording...
...Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, who, before the whole thing became public, called Curry and asked him to resign with dignity. This was, to DeGuglielmo's way of thinking, the honorable way, as opposed to the more effective but nastier technique of confronting Curry with five votes in a public session. No doubt DeGuglielmo expected that Curry would comply and step out quietly. But the manager's concept of honor clashed with DeGuglielmo's; he was outraged, called a local reporter, and honor gave way to oratory...
...done more to solidify than shatter. Even prospective charges of criminal infractions of the City's charter against three of them failed to produce the pressure for compromise. Part of the reason was that many of the threats were staffs. No more than 300 people ever attended a session of Curry's hearing, a long line of witnesses never materialized, and the possibility that Cambridge would be without a permanent city manager for eight to ten months--once raised by Crane--now seems unlikely...
...Senate had been hamstrung for nine days by a filibuster that Minority Leader Everett Dirksen called "the second battle of 14(b)." As in the first, which was waged during the waning days of last year's congressional session, Dirksen's aim was to block Administration attempts to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to outlaw union membership as a condition of employment. The talkathon began when Majority Leader Mike Mansfield moved that the Senate take up the repeal bill; Dirksen got the floor -and held on for dear life...
Dirksen used to advantage a Senate rule by which no committee other than Appropriations may meet while the main body is in session. "I must insist on that rule," he intoned in his best steamboat-Gothic profundo. "I cannot, helter-skelter, permit one committee to meet and not another." Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright protested in vain that his Foreign Relations Committee urgently needed to review President Johnson's $275 million supplemental request for economic aid to South Viet Nam. The problem could easily be resolved, Dirksen countered, by getting Mansfield to withdraw his motion to take up repeal...