单词 | panic session |
释义 | > as lemmaspanic session panic session n. U.S. History (also with capital initials) the first session of the Twenty-third Congress in 1833, so called because it was convened at a time of widespread financial panic. ΚΠ 1835 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 16 June 1/3 His celebrated anti bank report, made during the panic session of our Legislature in 1833–4. 1854 T. H. Benton Thirty Years' View I. 369/2 On the second day of December, 1833, commenced the first session of the Twenty-third Congress, commonly called the Panic Session. 1974 Amer. Hist. Rev. 79 576/2 His term as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee during the ‘panic session’, when removal of deposits from the Bank of the United States was the main issue. < as lemmas |
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