Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow of the season. Through sleet and rain he drove to church, stayed to preside as senior warden at a vestryman's meeting. Home to Uvalde on the windswept Texas plains went Vice President John Nance Garner, to a State that has been fussing about a proposed special session of its Legislature, and an appalling murder down at Comanche.* Back to his old Kentucky home (Paducah) went Senate Leader Alben Barkley...
...Joseph William Martin studied timetables to Hawaii; House Democrat Chief Sam Rayburn headed home to his beloved shorthorn cattle in Bonham, Texas. By mutual agreement the leaders decided that events did not justify their remaining in Washington to counsel with Franklin Roosevelt as had been promised when the special session assembled...
...last, after 44 days and 1,000,000-plus words of high-and low-grade oratory, the second session of the 76th Congress was dispersing. Its achievements: 1) an historic change in the foreign policy of the U. S.; 2) a $222,000 appropriation to pay its own mileage expenses...
...with perfect confidence last week asked the House to extend his inquiry for a year beyond next Jan. 3 (when his present authorization expires). Having spent most of the $125,000 so far appropriated to his committee, he announced he would ask for $100,000 at the next regular session of Congress. His awed fellows in the House had talked seriously of letting him have up to $500,000, seemed certain to vote one-fifth as much...
Captain Torbie Macdonald continued to show gradual improvement in his battle with an ailing leg as the Harlowmen ran through an uneventful practice session yesterday. However, the possibility that he will play against Army remained small, for the Crimson leader still favors the injured limb...