Word: adjourn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into President Hoover's office at the White House last week marched two Senators-Jones of Washington, Walsh of Montana; and two Representatives-Til-son of Connecticut, Garner of Texas. They came to perform a traditional ceremony- notification of the President that Congress was about to adjourn. Congressman Tilson truly declared that the House had finished its program. When Senator Jones's turn came to speak for the Senate, he repeated the historic phrase: "Mr. President, the Senate has completed its work-" Then he qualified: "-as far as possible." It was all the others present on this solemn...
...Defeated (34-51) a resolution to adjourn...
Even Republican Generalissimo Smoot voted against adjournment. He cried: "My duty is to stand by the bill and if God gives me strength, that is what I'll do. If it kills me, all right. . . . If the Senate wants to adjourn I'd say THANK GOD but I will never ask for it myself...
...know where we're at. Are we going to have a tariff bill? If not, let's not meet here at 10 o'clock every day and sit until six and go through the motions of considering this bill. Let's meet at twelve and adjourn at one and then Senators can go out on the golf links every...
...belief that payment of Reparations and War Debts is financially and economically impossible without inflicting injuries on the European debtors and creditors alike.* But I told them at The Hague: 'So long as there are payments we mean to get our share!' That was my bombshell. We had to adjourn for two days to enable the other delegations to recover from the shock...