Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces rebelled. When the argument tied the state convention in parliamentary knots, Pro-Taft Author Clarence Budington Kelland, national committeeman, seized the microphone and roared: "This convention is approaching a point of absurdity. It is a completely ridiculous mess. I move to get out of this mess that we adjourn." Finally, the convention abandoned the unit rule, did about what it was expected to: ten delegates for Taft, two for Eisenhower, two uncommitted...
Once C.K. ran a headline which said: THANK GOD THE LEGISLATURE IS SOON TO ADJOURN . . . SACRAMENTANS SHOULD ALL BE JOYFUL. California's legislators were so mad at the Bee that they tried to shift the capital from Sacramento. Roared back McClatchy: "When it shall come to pass in this seagirt, sun-kissed and mountain-embraced State of California that a newspaper shall not open its lips against a gang which a misguided public have molded into legislators, then it is time that we make genuflection before them and lay our bellies low in the dust as they pass...
...Fort Worth and the object of Carter's deepest scorn, Carter was asked to introduce the speaker. Carter arose and spoke - at length. By the time he got to the introduction, the speaker excused himself. His prepared address was long, and it was time for the club to adjourn...
Truman's timing of the appointment, only a few hours before Congress was due to adjourn, meant that the Senate would not be able to discuss the appointment until it reconvenes in January...
...scant 12 of the 25 varsity soccer players invited to return for pre-season practice have appeared this week, the smallest turnout since Bruce Munro has been coaching at Harvard. Freshman coach Andrew "Polly" Guyda hopes for a better showing when the '55 candidates adjourn at 3:30 p.m. Monday on the Business School Field...