Word: session
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although no issue of moment was to come up, he attended the brief (20 minutes) Senate session that day. In the afternoon he read his mail and inquired about a Negro woman who had asked him to get her a job. He requested his young clerk, Charles Corker, to pick him up in the park around 4:30 and motor him home. "Are you sure you have the time?" twice asked Borah of Idaho, mindful that the stripling had pre-law classes to attend. Reassured, overcoated (without the blanket), the Senator trudged out of the office, along the echoing basement...
...Jones's prospects looked still brighter when the No. 3 man in the primary, ex-Governor James Noe, one time Huey Long lieutenant, came out for him. A few minutes after Noe's swing was announced, distraught Governor Long called a special session of the Legislature, hurriedly pushed through some abject vote-getting bills-repeal of the sales tax that has loaded Louisiana pockets with brass and aluminum tokens, repeal of the tax on gasoline used by boats, which has made Louisiana fishermen grind their teeth, statutory opening of the books of the State bond and tax board...
Chief Justice for the session will be Mr. Justice Owen J. Roberts of the United States Supreme Court, who will deliver the decision at the conclusion of the arguments, after deliberation with the other two members of the Court, Herschel W. Arant and Charles E. Clark, Circuit Court of Appeals Judges...
Radcliffe will be host to the School of Polities on Foreign Affairs at a three day lecture session beginning January 28, under the auspices of Radcliffe College and the Massachusetts League of Women Voters...
...program of the School is arranged chronologically. The sessions of the first day will review the past, under the general topic "From the Versailles Treaty to the Second World War." The second day, with the thems "The World in Conflict," and the third day, with the session entitled "Reconstruction," will complete the series...