Word: adjourning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ramsey Macdonald, British Labor Leader, in a recent number of the Socialist Review animadverts upon riotous behavior in the House of Commons: " I detest these scenes. One heated furnace of a man can lead the legitimate calls of ' adjourn ' into the badly sung strains of Rule Britannia or The Red Flag or Tipperary or fisticuffs and not only make a fool of himself but degrade everyone associated with him. Fascism was stimulated into life by communist tactics...
...Premier, answer questions personally. This he was unable to do, owing to his throat trouble. A statement to this effect was a signal for a general outburst of Laborite fury. The Red Flag was sung, and the uproar became so terrific that the Speaker was compelled to adjourn the session. In the general exit a good deal of inadvertent jostling occurred. One Laborite complained that he had been hit by a Conservative, whereupon Colonel the Hon. Walter E. Guinness (Under Secretary of State for War), who seems to have been perfectly innocent, received a punch on the nose...
...Assembly will then adjourn for 48 hours. Before the temporary adjournment, the members of the Assembly will choose a Committee on Resolutions for each question, to be composed in each case of the Committee on Investigation and one member not on this committee...
...graduates of Oberlin College now in the University or residing in the vicinity of Cambridge will hold a reunion dinner at the Colonial Club on Quincy street this evening at 7 o'clock. After the dinner the guests will adjourn to 11 Story street, Cambridge, where Mr. Whiting Williams, Oberlin '99, who is well known as a writer and lecturer on the labor problem, will give a brief address...
...graduates of Oberlin College now in the University or residing in the vicinity of Cambridge will hold a reunion dinner at the Colonial Club on Quincy street Saturday evening, October 28, at 7 o'clock. After the dinner the guests will adjourn to 11 Story street, Cambridge, where Mr. Whiting Williams, Oberlin '99, who is well known as a writer and lecturer on the labor problem, will give a brief address...