Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started in the House. When only nine of the necessary 145 signatures were lacking, House leaders got together, did a parliamentary trick. They reported the bill favorably from the Banking & Currency Committee. On the crowded calendar of the House the bill was not likely to get consideration before adjournment unless the Rules Committee gave it a favored status. To force the Rules Committee to do so would require another petition and under the rules the bill could not be brought up until the second Monday in May (May 14, too close to expected adjournment for any likelihood of passage). Undeterred...
...government. He has no other whiplash over the House and the Senate except public support, such as he enjoys at present. When he is out of favor with a part of the people, he must rely on the spoils system. He should be given the right to adjourn the Congress once in his term, and make the legislators stand public election...
...Byrns: Mr. Speaker, if that is to be the attitude of the gentleman from New York, we shall have to adjourn, but I want the country at large to know that we adjourned at 1 o'clock on account of the gentleman from New York. . . . The gentleman will never get anything by these tactics...
...Representatives back to the Capitol for work and the one regular session of the 73rd Congress. "It will be a very important session but there will be no dramatic instances to write about. It will be a working session-pass supply bills, tax bills and liquor bills and adjourn early in May. There will be no attempt to overthrow anything the last session of Congress enacted and there will be no attempt to oppose the President. The Republicans had better not snipe. Anybody who snipes will be left at home...
...attainment. "Bismarck wrote the first chapter of German achievement, and the second is in the making." Simonds sees in Hitler's domination of Germany what Pitt saw in Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz. Says Mr. Simonds: "When Hitler captured Germany the time had similarly come to adjourn the sessions of the League of Nations and to fold away the Kellogg Pact and all similar parchment collections of words become meaningless in a contemporary world. His coming marked the transition from a post-war to a pre-war era." U. S. participation in the last war temporarily rescued...