Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peace treaty. But they were confident that the Russians were neither able nor willing to pay the price of losing East Germany. Western strategy, according to word in Washington and London, will be to expose Russia's unwillingness to make a settlement, trumpet it to the world, then adjourn the conference in the hope that Europe might thereupon unite in firm purpose. But with the Russians, it has never been that easy...
...tour (cost: $1,002 apiece) began in Rome. There, the 22 were supposed to talk about Plato under the pines of the Pincian Hill, but so many other tourists were cluttering up the place that they had to adjourn to their hotel. To get the feel of St. Augustine, they set off for a nearby monastery, only to find that women were not permitted. Nevertheless, the group persevered. They tossed off the Confessions and also the Apology huddled in their hotel. Then they were off to Florence...
...long after the names began to roll, a complication arose in Ohio. From Washington U.S. Senator John Bricker telephoned a G.O.P. leader and proposed that the Republican-controlled legislature, about to adjourn, stay in Columbus long enough to change the state law on filling U.S. Senate vacancies. The legislature could call for a special election in November. With that to mull over, the legislators agreed to stay around until late this week...
Lights burned far into the night and messengers scurried about like ants at a midsummer picnic as Congress hurried to adjourn. Then, into the usual closing-week crisis, President Eisenhower injected a red-hot issue: he asked Congress to raise the federal debt limit from $275 billion to $290 billion...
Last week the Administration passed the word to House and Senate G.O.P. leaders: it would like Congress to adjourn by midsummer, get out of town and (barring emergencies) stay out until next January. Reason: Cabinet members and top aides spend so much time testifying and preparing to testify before congressional committees that they can't get on with the work of running the Government...