Word: adjournment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just been promised two minutes more by Rules Committee Chairman O'Connor. Seizing time by the forelock Representative Deen launched into the most gratefully received two-minute speech delivered this year in the house: "Mr. Speaker, there are many reasons why the House and Senate should quickly adjourn this session of the 74th Congress. . . ." Applause. ''More than 20 of our colleagues-26 to be exact-are now either in hospitals or at their homes suffering from heart trouble or a nervous breakdown.* This Congress has worked long and faithfully and well, and, personally, I insist that...
Round No. 3, which ended last week, was a victory for ASCAP. Though the Government had insisted on beginning the trial this month, its witnesses wavered so under cross-examination that it was glad to adjourn to bolster up its case. Witness William J. Benning, musical director of Radio Station WTMJ in Milwaukee, asserted that he would be unable to operate without the popular music in ASCAP's catalog. ASCAP controls many an orchestration where it does not control the original tune. Milwaukee's Benning admitted that in such cases his station chose to use ASCAP...
...President, I wish we would adjourn...
...fuss. He did not even move into his father-in-law's vacant chair at council table, but retained his customary seat beside Editor Rollo Ogden. There, every noon, publisher, editors and managers meet for the day's mulling of policy. Afterward the biggest wigs adjourn to the dining room upstairs, usually with a guest who may be a Cabinet officer, Brain Truster, diplomat. In the centre of the dining room ceiling is the design of a rose which Publisher Ochs liked to point out to assure his guest that whatever he said at table was strictly...
...House resolved itself into the .committee of the whole to con-sider the Social Security Bill than Speaker Byrns descended from the rostrum and proceeded to read the House a lecture on time-wasting. He warned members that important bills were coming up, that they had no right to "adjourn as we did yesterday at 4:15 in the afternoon." With emphatic swings of his arm he declared...