Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House the President summoned High Tariff Lieutenant-General Watson and Generalissimo Smoot. He asked first one, then the other about prospects of Tariff Bill early passage in the Senate. Mournfully Senator Watson predicted that the special tariff session of the Senate would end without passing any Tariff Bill. Less pessimistic. Senator Smoot conceded a "chance" of a final Senate vote on the tariff next month...
...Sheppard Amendment reached no vote, became no law. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee, appeared unlikely to reappear during the present Congressional session. But it precipitated a storm of dispute among Drys as well as Wets. The Wets, of course, flayed the idea as a further encroachment on Liberty, a further botching of a bad law. They said it would make millions of additional criminals, fill jails beyond the bursting point. Drys were divided in their opinion. Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Senator Watson of Indiana were favorable. Such potent Drys as Idaho's Borah and Nebraska...
...Senate continued its struggle with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Minute seemed the possibility that it would even begin to debate schedules before the closing of the special session. Yet Senators, unmindful or unworried, last week made little tariff progress, went instead down two attractive bypaths. One bypath was the issue of Philippine Independence (see p. 17). Another was the issue of censor ship, by U. S. Customs officials, of allegedly obscene books imported to U. S. shores...
...Saratzeanu?" cried several flabbergasted representatives, and others indignantly moved for a temporary suspension of the session which the Speaker granted. In the interval the Cabinet retired into a second huddle and henchmen of the Prime Minister busily circulated among the rustic members of the Peasant Party, to explain that Constantin Saratzeanu was an honorable though inconspicuous rooster on the Rumanian Supreme Court bench...
Both the Harvard and Cadet squads will make use of the Stadium this afternoon for a brief session of signal practice. The Crimson cohorts will work out from 3 to 3.30 o'clock, when the West Point players will test the Stadium turf. The Army lineup which is expected to start tomorrow follows l.e., Carlmark: l.t., Price: l.g., Humber: c., Miller: r.g., Hillsinger: r.t., Perry: r.e., Messinger: q.b., Gibner: l.h.b. O'Keefe: r.h.b., Cagle: f.b., Murrell...