Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. Hurry up calls from Washington sent Ambassadors Joseph P. Kennedy (London) and William Bullitt (Paris) hustling back to the White House from vacations in Florida. Ambassadors rarely appear before Congressional committees, and then only before foreign affairs committees. But Messrs. Kennedy & Bullitt were promptly closeted in "secret" session with a joint meeting of the House & Senate Military Affairs Committees...
...Words Our Real Dictators? (Sat. 1 p. m. MBS), a Columbia University session on semantics (science of meaning) led by Dr. Harry Morgan Ayres, literature and language pundit...
...Catholic pro-Franco minority last week did a workmanlike job of sitting down hard on the U. S. arms embargo on Spain, which many a friend of the Loyalists had hoped to have lifted during the present session of Congress. The "Lift the Embargo" campaign had the support of President Roosevelt's passing reference to the injustice of such measures in his opening message to Congress. But the lifters, badly stage-managed, strained a muscle in their first heave last week...
...ducking rite. George Gibbons, Bob Schaper, and Matt Soltysiak, the Bruin heroes, were mobbed by wildly enthusiastic teammates, and a squadron of reporters was besieging everyone with questions. Through it all,--the quarter-mile race that clinched the meet for Brown, the ovation that followed it, and the tiring session with representatives of the press afterwards--the man who was bearing the heaviest burden of the loss was standing erect and calm, surprisingly unruffled...
...three-hour session Joseph Stefani, business representative of the locals, laid the contract, paragraph by paragraph, before more than 200 vociferous employees...