Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come from. Still the weary lawmakers are at work, cranking out major bills at a rate rarely matched in U.S. history. And if L.B.J. insists on repaying his campaign debt to labor by trying to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act's right-to-work provision (14-b) this session, they may not get away, in Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's words, "until the snow flies"-and without having repealed...
Scarcely had the chaplain said amen to the opening prayer when Missouri Republican Durward Hall demanded the entire journal of the preceding session be read. The clerk had barely begun to drone when Minority Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois leaped up and demanded a quorum count, which includes a full roll call of the House. McCormack had to comply. The count ate up half an hour. It was hardly finished when Iowa Republican H. R. Gross asked for another. And so it went all afternoon and into the night. Majority Leader Carl Albert accused the opposition of filibustering. Tempers frazzled...
...also the precarious two-vote majority by which his socialists rule. Wilson demanded that the Trades Union Congress, meeting in Brighton this week, agree to voluntary controls in tune with his impending income-regulating legislation. His alternative: use of compulsory government controls in the bill, due in the next session of Parliament...
Brushing past Kamisar at the end of the session, Murphy returned in kind, grunted only: "That was awful." Chief Justice Warren diplomatically praised the discussion as "splendid, fair and searching." Pointing out that he had been a law-enforcement officer himself (chief deputy district attorney of Alameda County, Calif., for two years and California's attorney general for four years) Warren said that he had abundant sympathy for the problems of the police...
...Although it will be the longest of Paul's flights in miles-4,273 each way, compared with 3,843 for his pilgrimage to India-the New York trip will be the shortest in time, largely because the Vatican Council will be in the midst of its fourth session. The Pope will arrive at Kennedy Airport at 10 a.m., may well fly home that evening...