Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shown by generations of Senators, against any invocation of the executive defense against congressional fishing expeditions. True to form, both Democratic and Republican Senators fell for Joe's line that the investigation would be crippled because of Eisenhower's instructions to Witness Adams. The committee decided to adjourn the hearings until next week. Meanwhile, Chairman Mundt was instructed to seek modification of the President's decision against testimony on the Adams-Adams-Lodge conference...
...attend the Crimson Key Dance, and those who do not happen to like Billy May and stuffy air are not dragged into the IAB. On the other hand any couple that prefers the sanctity and economy of a quiet evening in an individual suite should not be coerced to adjourn to a local...
...hold a full-dress conference on hemisphere economic problems in Rio (rather than Washington) next fall. Debated questions of human rights, the right of asylum, and revision of the Bogota pact for obligatory settlement of inter-American disputes, and agreed to act on all items in time to adjourn next week...
There is a certain engaging naivete about the laws since people will drink and dance at private parties even though bars and ballrooms are snapped closed at 12:01 a.m. But in sports, unfortunately, players cannot adjourn to someone's room for a last inning or goal. The blue laws were composed with a warped view of human nature; they now fit the times no better...
...stockholder had obtained a court injunction that prevented him from holding the meeting. Reason for the suit: Textron had not had enough time to get its plan before the American Woolen stockholders. Up jumped Lewis D. Gilbert, who makes a career of attending stockholders' meetings, to protest adjourning "this meeting without the approval of stockholders." Replied White: "But I'm the defendant. I am not permitted to go on with the meeting." In the confusion of other protests, Lawyer Robert H. Montgomery, company clerk, recognized a motion to adjourn until after the court hearing this week, and called...