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Word: adjourned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Permitted the Free State Parliament to adjourn until April 20 without submitting to it last week his proposal to abolish the oath of allegiance to King George. Before they went home the Deputies were told by Minister of Finance John McEntee that the Free State will retain the ?3,000,000 ($10,860,000) which it is scheduled to pay this year to former British "absentee landlords" who sold out their Irish holdings and are owed this money. Messiah de Valera spoke of lowering taxation by this means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: From Sod to Sky | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...something about Reparations at the Lausanne Conference, the London Observer announced last week that Britain, France, Italy, Belgium had agreed privately that conference delegates will submit a proposal to Washington to extend the Hoover Moratorium from July to Jan. 1, 1933, arrange to resume discussions before that time and adjourn the Lausanne Conference as soon as possible. This was typical of other decisions. Postponement had become a policy-and a hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: State of Europe | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Moscow assumed that as usual the Union Central Executive Committee would vote complete confidence in the Government and adjourn early in January, leaving Dictator Stalin (who runs the Committee by Communist wire-pulling behind the scenes) to run Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin Silent, Stalin Crashed | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...Cabinet. At Speaker Fitzroy's bidding the Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, led the House in orderly procession to sign the Roll (equivalent to swearing in). By the time 615 autographs had been affixed, the House was ready to adjourn. Parliament came to an abrupt standstill for several days while Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald put finishing touches to his revised National Government and wrote the Speech from the Throne later delivered by George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Parliament, Throne Speech | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

After the dinner, to which members of the club and graduates have been invited, the members will adjourn to the Lowell House tower room, where several of the dialogues of Lucian, the Greek satirist, will be read by the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASSICAL CLUB WILL SPEAK LATIN AT LEVERETT DINNER | 11/10/1931 | See Source »

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