Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Couzens, as the new Chairman, then announced that the Committee would adjourn until Sept. 2, when it would meet to conduct hearings on the conduct of the income tax and prohibition enforcement business of the Treasury...
...That after the 75th ballot, the Convention adjourn to meet on July 21 in Kansas City; defeated, 82.7 "Ayes" to 1,007.3 "Noes...
...late in another afternoon. The McAdoo men wanted an evening session to get the nominating business out of the way in hope that a few ballots might be taken before the platform, and hence the Ku Klux Klan issue, came before the delegates. The Anti-McAdooites wanted to adjourn for the day. Senator Walsh called twice for "Ayes" and "Noes" but could not decide. A roll call was taken and adjournment was made until the next morning by vote of 559 to 513. This was the first defeat of the McAdoo leaders; but conspiring against them were a prize fight...
...Passed a bill providing for the construction of eight scout cruisers, six river gunboats, and installation of oil-burning boilers in six battleships. ¶Debated at length the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill. ¶By a vote of 221 to 157, supported a concurrent resolution to adjourn sine die on Saturday, June 7. (The resolution had not yet come up in the Senate...
Congress would like to adjourn on June 7, before the political conventions?so the press was given to understand. But there are obstacles. Very little has been done. The Senate, especially, feels that there may be much for it to do in the meantime. If the session continues through the political conventions there is no telling when it may end?perhaps not until it is time for the members to go home and mend their fences before election...