Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Bankhead of the House was a Warm Springs visitor. Points for the press: Everything about the reorganization of House committees was sweet and smooth; there would be no such thing as "Must" legislation next session...
...Simpson had raced to Washington by milk train and plane from Albany, after a night session of his State executive committee at which he had fought for the National Committee seat of Charles Dewey Hilles. retired. Mr. Simpson's failure to elect Tom Dewey by getting out a bigger New York City vote for him was one of the reasons the State committee was reluctant to nominate him for the national body. Other reason was the method he had chosen to get out such city votes as he did: he had "played ball" with the local American Labor Party...
...Heinrich Bruening, visiting lecturer and former Chancellor of Germany, and Dr. Arnold Brecht, of the New School for Social Research, New York, were other speakers at the morning session of the conference...
...technicalities of the situation were discussed at a meeting this evening, which followed an afternoon session of the congress in which experts in government, labor, business administration, and civil service indicated their relation with the problem...
Aside from political interests, which he believed should be eliminated as far as possible, by an independent, trained, and permanent Civil Service, Hopf declared himself strongly in favor of the ill-fated Reorganization Bill which was killed by the last session of Congress...