Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...council meeting in the Continental Hotel is to start the session on Monday. On Tuesday morning there will be reading of papers by various members of the society, followed by a trip to Wellesley and a tea in the Whitin Observatory residence. In the evening, the Harvard Observatory is to be open to visitors from 7.30 to 9 o'clock, after which Mr. and Mrs. Harlowe Shapley will hold a New Year's Eve party. Wednesday is to be devoted mainly to the reading of more papers. On Thursday, the General Electric plant in West Lynn is to be visited...
Perfunctory was the opening last week of the first regular session of the 71st Congress. The Senate sat only seven minutes. Because of bad weather, elder legislators did not bother to attend. First business on the Senate calendar: the Vare case...
...Debated the tariff bill. ¶ Confirmed the nomination of Senator Edge as Ambassador to France (see col 2, of Gustav Aaron Youngquist as As- sistant Attorney General. ¶ Adopted (49-33) a resolution by Mon- tana's Walsh ending the special session. ¶ Adjourned until...
...Hoover rounded out the ritual by saying: "I thank you. I have no further communication to make to the Congress at this time." The comedy of the White House scene was furnished by the fact that the Senate defaulted on the tariff bill by voting to end the special session with this major legislation still uncompleted. The first session of the 71st Congress which began last April and ended last week cost the country $177,000,000, exclusive of legislators' salaries which must be paid anyway. Of this amount $151,- 500,000 was voted to start the Federal Farm...
...convinces the jury that her husband committed suicide. Throughout these proceedings Greta Garbo wears beautiful, oulandish clothes. At times her talent even brings a flash of something vital and convincing to the dull, over-photographed sequences. Best shot: three cleaning women eating lunch at the judge's bench after session...