Word: adjournment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sorrow & Politics. For a week Joe Robinson had prevented the Senate from adjourning, had closed each meeting with a recess so as not to break the "legislative day," the fiction under which Senators were denied the privilege of speaking more than twice. Mrs. Caraway after announcing the death of her colleague, said, "I move the Senate do now adjourn" and a solemn chorus of "ayes" approved her motion. Thus ended Senator Robinson's drive for the Court Bill's enactment...
...woman, one of 500 sweltering delegates who met one evening last week in San Francisco's musty old Labor Temple. They had met before 8 p. m. They did not adjourn until 5:25 next morning. Their business was indeed important: Harry Bridges, the lean little Australian-born leader of San Francisco's 4,000 International Longshoremen-the John L. Lewis of the West-was trying to snitch the San Francisco Labor Council clean away from the A. F. of L. Under William Green's orders the Central Labor Councils of Seattle and Portland had expelled...
Said Senator Norris: "Congress can't do good work when everybody is suffering from the heat. ... I would have Congress adjourn until the latter part of September or the first of October...
John F. Kennedy '40, chairman of this year's event, announced last night that the annual class party Tuesday will adjourn with all its trimmings to the usually deserted examination hall...
...bowler properly registered with the A. B. C. can bowl in the tournament by paying an entrance fee. If bowlers were allowed more than three games in each event the Congress would probably never adjourn. Since three games do not permit any more thorough demonstration of skill than nine holes of golf or half an hour of poker, a member of the small company of really top-class bowlers in the U. S. is not much more likely to win the individual championship than a member of the large class of able bowlers who can average 200 points a game...