Word: adjourn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SENATE, which organized itself on Dec. 3, with Senator Cummins of Iowa assuming the chair as President pro tem (TIME, Dec. 10), proceeded to adjourn from day to day, waiting for the House to organize...
...clock the roll call began with 419 members present. It was almost four, when Mr. Longworth moved for adjournment, no one had been elected on four votes taken. He regretted that the House had not organized itself so that it could formally adjourn in memory of its members who died during the Summer?instead he moved an informal adjournment until the next...
...December 3 Congress assembles. It is then expected to adjourn in memory of the late President Harding. On December 4 the House will probably begin organization, but the Senate is likely to adjourn again in honor of its three members lately dead?Senators Dillingham of Vermont, Nelson of Minnesota, Nicholson of Colorado. On the 5th, the Senate will begin organization...
...operators were unwilling to adjourn without prospect of renewing the Conference. At their suggestion the Conference adjourned until the next day, to give both sides " time to think it over...
...your judgment is final," said John L. Lewis, " this Conference may as well adjourn, sine die, here...