Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the beginning of the Sudeten Crisis, Czechoslovakia's Parliament met last week. Although the legislators were substantially those who sat in Parliament before its adjournment, their party line-up was drastically changed. Pressed by Germany to remold" Czechoslovakia along totalitarian lines, the Government, five days before the session met. ordered all parties supporting it to dissolve, join one big State Party for National Unity. The Czech Agrarian and Czech National Socialist groups, the Fascist National League and part of the Czech People's Catholic Party complied. The minority Socialists, Communists and dissident Catholic deputies did not. Pending...
...squabbly session of the Supreme Court, young TVA Attorney James Lawrence Fly was repeatedly bumbled at by Justice Pierce Butler, made a retort such as Supreme Court justices seldom hear: "Your Honor, the point seems perfectly clear except in Your Honor's mind...
...list gave a fairly good account of itself until the Saturday session when heavy disgusted long selling developed and forced prices down fractions to more than two points...
Colorado's chain-store tax decision is of national importance because awaiting the new Congress is Representative Wright Patman's bill admittedly designed to tax interstate chains out of existence. Proposed at the last session but not voted on, the Patman bill would tax stores on a graduated scale to a maximum of $1,000 times the number of stores times the number of States. For the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s 11,752 stores this tax would be $458,328,000, more than half A. & P.'s 1937 gross sales. Melville Shoe Corp...
...great exhibition of punting by Yale end John Miller and Harvard's Austie Harding and Frank Foley has kept the session seesawing back and forth. Early in the second period the Harlowmen had their best chance to score, when Harding tossed a 20-yard aerial to Captain Bob Green, who lateralled to Torb Macdonald, advancing the pigskin to the enemy 17-yard stripe. An interception by Anderson foiled the threat...