Turnip Day Session
1948 Special Session of U.S. Congress / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Turnip Day Session (or "Turnip Day" session) was a special session of the 80th Congress that began on July 26, 1948 and ended on August 3.[1] President Harry Truman called Congress to convene on that date during his acceptance speech two weeks earlier during the 1948 Democratic National Convention.
The name is taken from an old Missouri saying, "On the twenty-sixth of July, sow your turnips, wet or dry."[2][3] Truman chose the name because he was a Missouri native and had farmed his parents' land as a young man.