Word: sessions
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...were engaged in ... cannot and should not escape arrest and prosecution. Civil disobedience by 'civil rights workers' in the form of 'going limp' and lying or marching in the streets or upon the sidewalks, or marching around the city hall while night court was in session, singing 'freedom' songs, or taking to the streets to do their parading and picketing in lieu of using the sidewalks, while failing to make any application to city authorities for a parade permit, is still a violation...
What was the squabble all about? Johnson somehow got the idea that at a background-only session held for a few reporters Ford had inspired stories that the President was chicken; that Ford had told the newsmen that Johnson wanted to take a sterner, tougher stand on Viet Nam, but had retreated because mild Mike Mansfield was threat ening to raise a big row. If this had been true, Johnson might have had reason to get mad. But it wasn't-and it's one of the mysteries of Washington how Johnson got his lines of information clogged...
...Johnson, the subcommittee approved the bill, which was, in turn, swiftly and overwhelmingly (26-4) cleared last week by the full Judiciary Committee for certain passage in the House. It faces almost equally certain approval by the Senate-assuming there is time to bring it to the floor this session...
Success for Novas was doomed even before the session began, thanks to the wiles of Novas' bitter antagonist, ex-Premier George Papandreou. The "Old Fox" had held his own little caucus of Center Union Party Deputies the day before, persuaded 143 of them to vote against Novas when the time came for balloting at the end of the debate. When Parliament convened for the debate, in which Novas had promised to reveal the iniquities of Papandreou's 17 months in office, Papandreou simply ordered his supporters to stay in an anteroom. The infuriated leader of the right-wing...
Pandemonium broke loose on the floor as Deputies shouted angrily, and finally, with only 47 Deputies present, Speaker Emmanuel Baklatzis, a Papandreou supporter, declared the session suspended on the grounds that "lack of a quorum constitutes an indication of disapproval of the government...