Word: adjournment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Supreme Court ran out of work. To the amazement of attendants and onlookers it was forced to adjourn for two days to give breathless attorneys a chance to catch up. Cases were scheduled on its calendar for oral argument throughout the week but by Thursday the court, geared up to fresh efficiency by Chief Justice Hughes, had heard them all and no others were ready for presentation. For once the highest tribunal was functioning faster than the lawyers practicing before it. After its next meeting the court regularly adjourned for three weeks to ponder cases heard, write...
Chancellor Bruning operates his Dictatorship under the cloak of Constitutional Government by the device of having the Reichstag meet every six months or so, rush through a vote of confidence, then immediately adjourn, leaving Herr Bruning to rule by decree. Last week the Reichstag met to pass on Dictator Bruning's latest "Emergency Cabinet." Fortnight ago his chances of survival seemed slender. Adolf Hitler's prestige was rising, he had been received by President von Hindenburg, and moderate Deputies longed for their lost authority, but when voting time came the threatening moderates (who complain of the Dictatorship) lost...
Fess in High. Some of the public effect of this G. O. P. motion to adjourn politics was spoiled by the behavior of little Simeon Davison Fess, national G. O. P. chairman. He rushed to the White House to say good-bye to President Hoover. He came out declaring: "The time has come when we must let the country know. . . . In other words, we are going into high gear...
...unnecessary, that by law he had ten days more to pass on the work of Congress. For good measure the President signed 26 bills and sent some 400 others back to the White House for further study. The Senate never did notify the President it was about to adjourn because the notification resolution got caught behind the Thomas filibuster...
Commencing after the luncheon tomorrow the discussion of the problematic United States of Europe will be held in the last session of the Assembly. The closing address will be delivered by Professor Webster, and the Model Assembly will adjourn to discuss prospects for next year...