Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed treaties negotiated at Locarno were formally signed just ten years ago), Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin will open the Conference. The chiefs of the French, Italian, Japanese and U. S. delegations will reply to his address and many brave words of hope will be spoken. But when the gentlemen adjourn to begin their real work in Clarence House, a handsome Georgian edifice resembling a U. S. college dormitory, there will be little bravery in their hearts...
...Virginia Acting Administrator of NRA's skeleton; approved an order to the State Department to crack down on Russia for permitting the Third Internationale to conduct subversive activities in the U. S. (see p. 19). Word arrived from the Capitol that both Houses had passed a resolution to adjourn at midnight. Joyfully, Franklin Roosevelt sat down to do his final duty, dictated...
...When adjournment was postponed the President could only go philosophically to bed. Sunday morning he awoke without the light-hearted feeling he had a right to expect. Instead of voyaging down the Potomac on the Sequoia he stayed at home talking with upset Congressmen by telephone. On Monday, two conferences with Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee having failed to turn any means of untangling the snarl, the President decided to compromise. He offered to up the cotton loans from 90 to 100, make subsidy payments quicker and easier (see p. 131. The jaded legislators clutched at this...
...September 8 there will be a meeting of the officers of the Alumni which was adjourned on motion of Josiah Quincy at the bicentennial meeting on September 8, 1836. At that time a box, sealed at that meeting with the contents unrecorded, will be opened. The meeting will then adjourn until September 18 when the entire body of Alumni will convene...
...Congress of Revolution moved to adjourn, Keynoter Dimitroff urged "Exert your efforts with cunning!" This in the U. S. should take the form of discreet Communist infiltration into labor and religious groups hitherto repelled by Communist bluster, according to Comrade Dimitroff. Mild U. S. Socialists were marked for especially considerate attention by earnest Earl Browder, Secretary of the U. S. Communist Party...