Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With half a dozen major legislative items, e.g., the highway construction and public-housing programs, still hanging fire, the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives gave up in their efforts to adjourn by the end of July, last week began aiming for Aug. 6. But among the rank and file there was a sure sign that virulent adjournment fever, symptomized by extreme irritability, had set in; two of the members came to blows...
...that he had turned up "no major abuses,'' puzzled some businessmen by adding: "I didn't expect to find any." Although Fulbright can resume hearings in the next fortnight or issue some kind of face-saving report, old Washington hands thought he would be happy to adjourn his investigation indefinitely. Democrats know the study is, at best, doing them no good. At worst. if the market skidded or business turned down, Democrats would be blamed...
...amendment onto the budget bill to prohibit the use of state funds for any toll-road purpose. When the budget got to the House-Senate Conference Committee, Craig announced that he would refuse to sign a budget bill that included the amendment. Instead, he would let the assembly adjourn, then immediately call it into special session and present a new budget bill...
...them by merrymaking bridal parties. Delhi Glass Manufacturer Bawa Bachittar, marrying off two daughters in a joint ceremony, put up huge arches sheathed in flashing mirrors, and strung 30,000 colored lights along half a mile of roadway leading to his house. The Delhi state assembly was forced to adjourn because members had to attend so many wedding ceremonies...
...Turkey. When Iraq refused to budge, the angry Premier demanded that the other league members join him in reading Iraq out of the league's collective security arrangements. Most of the others shared Egypt's irritation but demurred at going so far. Instead, they persuaded Nasser to adjourn the session while a planeload of Arab League representatives flew off to Baghdad to try to argue Iraq's Premier Nuri es-Said back into the fold...