Word: session
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pausing outside the chamber of the House of Representatives, Franklin Roosevelt shouted laughingly to Secretary of Interior Ickes, who had eaten some crab meat for lunch and was wishing he hadn't, "Hello, Grouch." Then the President, in a grey cutaway, walked with smiling dignity into a joint session of Congress to deliver his eighth annual message on the State of the Nation...
Young & old, baggy & neat, bright & dull, the men and women of Session III of the 76th Congress came together last week faced with election year and these issues: 1) renewal of the reciprocal trade agreements (see above); 2) the Budget and taxes; 3) National Defense; 4) proposals to curb NLRB; 5) relief appropriations; 6) amendments to the Wage-Hour...
Last year, 30 days after the opening of Session I, Senate Leader Alben Barkley of Kentucky complained that the Congress had nothing to do. Three months later the Senate was still taking three-day recesses for want of work. As usual, in the last two or three weeks, Session I jammed through the entire legislative program in a last-minute, lickety-split finish...
...Session III, prophesied Washington wiseacres, would follow the same pattern, bumbling along for three months or so. then cramming everything into the last few days before the legislators board their trains for the June conventions...
...that allows the track operators a profit of 15 per cent on an annual betting business of $20,000,000 have so far been ineffectual. He cites the effort by Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14 to increase the percentage taken by the state, which was beaten at the last legislative session...