Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these exhibitions of economy lost their significance when the public learned last week about a quiet little speech made by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to an Appropriations subcommittee in secret session last month. Testifying on the Treasury-Post Office supply bill, Mr. Morgenthau calmly observed that a public debt of $50,000,000,000 was in certain prospect for the U. S., and would by no means strain the nation's financial structure. Shocked protests answered Mr. Morgenthau. But realists on Capitol Hill knew that he was only putting it mildly. They knew that...
...must be enlisted. But the Sociology Department is the logical executor of the course; it is best suited to the task of coordinating the various aspects and bringing them into a logical whole. Only when this is done will marriage instruction be raised from the level of a bull session, a matter for ridicule, to the position which is actually warranted by its importance...
Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, will preside at the morning session. Dr. Donald H. Mensal will speak on "Problems of the Solar Atmosphere...
...mass leadership. He is 54, florid, fleshy and fresh. He comes from the western end of North Carolina. His name is Robert Rice Reynolds. Called "Our Bob" by the homespun folks who vote for him, he is half-baked, has been in the U. S. Senate since 1932. This session two inspirations have made him more vocal than usual...
...guide books, Figueras is remembered as the town where the marriage of King Philip V to Marie Louise of Savoy was ratified in 1701. In the guide books of the future, Figueras will be more vividly remembered as the meeting place of one of the strangest sessions of the Cortes, the Spanish Parliament. The Spanish Constitution requires a session of the Cortes at least every six months. Determined to be scrupulously constitutional, the Premier called a Cortes meeting despite the gravity of the military situation. In an underground, bombproof cavern of the 18th-Century Castle of San Fernando...