Word: adjourn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will elect new members -- both undergraduate and honorary--and new officers at 9:30 a.m. today, and then adjourn to the literary exercises at 11 a.m. in Sanders Theatre...
...view of President Johnson's new requests, hope was already fading that Congress would adjourn by July so that its members could begin campaigning for November...
...Little Bit Sensitive. The questioning continued. Could the President predict when Congress would adjourn? "I never have done that," said Johnson. "I came here 35 years ago, and the first thing I learned was never to predict when they would adjourn." Then, without any excuse, he resumed his little lecture to the press. He does "get a little bit sensitive," he said, when he sees presidential decisions reported that he never heard of. There was a U.P.I. item he had seen that very morning telling "how I eliminated the Redwood Forest bill from the State of the Union Message...
Although Castelo Branco barred him self from re-election, Jaguaribe felt it was a very small consolation for the "phoney elections" he was setting up in Brazil's Congress. Congress was now a puppet, as the president could adjourn it or remove members at will...
...Speaker, there being no further business," drawled Acting House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana, "it is my honor and privilege to move that the first session of the 89th Congress do now adjourn." The clock stood at 12:52 a.m.; the Senate had quit two minutes earlier. To a chorus of yahoos, Speaker John McCormack banged his gavel, and the 40-odd members still on the floor headed jubilantly for the exits...