Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bystander at a Royalist funeral procession incensed them (TIME, Feb. 24). This attack-and enemies of Léon Blum charged he was not really hurt but is dramatically "exploiting a few scratches"- threatens to figure largely in the coming French Chamber and Senate elections for which Parliament will adjourn Friday, March...
...Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24) and construct a major Nazi Fleet. Last week, since neither Germany nor Japan was sitting in at the London Conference, its proceedings were illusory. The object was to agree solemnly upon something of a high sounding nature which would permit the delegates to adjourn without too great an appearance of frustration. For this purpose the plan of Lord Monsell showed promise. It was gravely adopted "as a basis for discussion...
...House met next day, Foreign Affairs Chairman McReynolds solemnly uprose to offer a resolution that President Roosevelt be requested to communicate the House's sorrow & sympathy to the British Government and "that as a further mark of respect to the memory of King George the House do now adjourn...
When the snow frolic was ended, the Club voted to adjourn to its particular entry only to find the entry door bolted. Appeals to lighted windows were so intensified by the steadily dropping temperature that soon the door was opened from within, and the Polar Bare Club filed inside formulating a program of revenge...
...decrease the chances of the Conference's failure. In fact, it brewed in both British and U. S. delegations the fear that the meeting might be worse than a failure. The British frankly expressed the hope that the Conference could be made to do its failing quickly and adjourn before Christmas so that political bigwigs could be packed off the field which would then be left to the naval experts. With Cabinet Ministers making fiery speeches for home consumption, with France publicly turning thumbs down on Italy's demands for naval equality, with the U. S. doing...