Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer thought that Congress would adjourn by Aug. 1 for the rest of the year. As long as the crisis lasted, Congress would stay in session...
...concluded a long and bitter attack on the government's gasoline rationing policy. Lloyd swept his eyes over the thinned-out ranks of the Laborites, and turned to the Speaker. Said he: ". . . We . . . propose to divide the House," i.e., call for a vote on an earlier motion to adjourn...
Clement Attlee had laughed because he knew the Tories did not want the Labor government to resign on the strength of a losing vote on a motion to adjourn. Next day, Attlee twitted the Conservatives for their "ambush" tactics, declared he refused to regard the issue as one of sufficient weight. "We carry on," he told the House. Said Tory Winston Churchill: "May I express to the Prime Minister our thanks . . ." The Labor benches interrupted him with a roar of laughter. Churchill glanced up, saw the joke, then concluded: ". . . for [his] full and careful statement." The Laborites were still...