Word: session
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skimpy attendance at Faculty meetings is an old complaint. It was to remedy this that the Faculty Council, an elected representative body, was set up a few years back. Last fall, when the tenure controversy raged and the interests of Harvard teachers were directly involved, attendance zoomed; at one session nearly 300 Faculty members attended the largest meeting in Harvard history. Encouraged by the big turn-outs, the Faculty voted to suspend the Faculty Council for a year and to resume regular full Faculty meetings. But now the fever has subsided, mid-winter apathy has set in, and on alternate...
...sign that Scandinavia was in the middle of a first-class war of nerves was the flight of capital from Sweden. In two days 20,000,000 kroner ($4,760,000) left for safer refuge. To check this loss Premier Per Albin Hansson called the Riksdag into week-end session, pushed through laws forbidding the export of banknotes, checks, drafts, coins, bullion. No one could doubt any longer that Sweden, by helping volunteers to get to Finland, was "actively non-intervening" in the Finnish War more or less as Germany, Italy and Russia "non-intervened" in the Spanish Civil...
...made it a fifteen minute show-piece for his eight-man brass section--muted. Then every night for several weeks, he played it from the Cafe Rouge at the Pennsylvania in New York. Result was tremendous national popularity--so much so that Victor had to call a special recording session for the band and ship it out on a special release schedule. Hawkins by this time had decided that perhaps he had made a mistake, and therefore tried to use the tune for his theme song. Much to his horror, after the first night of so doing, NBC officials informed...
...During the first few weeks of tis regular session, the outstanding feature of Congress...
...Soon after the war broke our President Roosevelt called Congress in special session...