Word: adjourning
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...Defeated (34-51) a resolution to adjourn...
...know where we're at. Are we going to have a tariff bill? If not, let's not meet here at 10 o'clock every day and sit until six and go through the motions of considering this bill. Let's meet at twelve and adjourn at one and then Senators can go out on the golf links every...
...belief that payment of Reparations and War Debts is financially and economically impossible without inflicting injuries on the European debtors and creditors alike.* But I told them at The Hague: 'So long as there are payments we mean to get our share!' That was my bombshell. We had to adjourn for two days to enable the other delegations to recover from the shock...
...haste to reach Washington in time for the reconvening of the Senate on Aug. 19. Reason: The Senate Finance Committee, badly stalled on tariff writing, admitted it could not complete its bill before next month. Gentlemen of the Senate had agreed to do nothing more than meet and adjourn for three-day periods until Sept. 3, when Chairman Reed Smoot of the committee was "almost sure" he would have the measure ready...
...first time the Latins realized that they must yield?or adjourn. As a last resort the French started a rumor that J. P. Morgan would consent to act as "mediator," obviously hoped he would. When the story was spiked from a source close to Mr. Morgan, who was in Scotland last week, Prime Minister Aristide Briand intimated that France might make "substantial concessions...