Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday morning a formal reception at William and Mary is planned for the visitors, with an address later by the Honorable Charles Francis Adams '88, President of the Board of Overseers. After the regular Board meeting, the Overseers will adjourn to meet in the afternoon at the restored House of Burgesses, the legislative body of the Old Dominion...
...Adjourn and go home...
...Retain in Congress power to rescind the Lend-Lease authority by concurrent resolution (simple majority) of both Houses. Meaning: not very much. As an academic argument against its effectiveness, Article 1, section 7 of the Constitution requires Presidential approval of all concurrent Congressional resolutions except to adjourn (customarily only those embracing legislation are submitted to the President). A two-thirds majority in each House would be needed to override his veto. Practically, such a resolution would require majority public opinion for passage. (This amendment, submitted by Representative Everett Dirksen of Pekin, Ill., was hailed as Republican coup-of-the-week...
...pompous Diet building in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito made a one-minute speech to the members, who were as stray and divided as sheep. They had dissolved their political parties and their lobbying machines. They had no aims, no organization, no hope. Their first and only act was to adjourn until January 20. Then, in a mockery of the days when they could at least pretend to steer laws, some of them banded together in a Diet Members' Club, to "direct proceedings." With this they were vastly satisfied-until they found that the man who organized the club...
Last week at least 97% of the Congress wanted to adjourn and go home. As a matter of fact, 147 House members, 66 Senators had already gone; eleven Republicans who had loudly insisted the Congress must stay in session to guard the nation from anything & everything have been junketing on Caribbean waters; occasional sessions of both chambers, attended by a scant 50 or so members, heard mostly lame-duck quacking. In the House, labor-baiting, gimlet-eyed Clare Hoffman of Allegan, Mich, and Lame-Duck Ralph Church of Evanston, Ill. still objected to technical adjournment. They had their...