Word: adjournment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after long illness, died A. Piatt Andrew, onetime (1910-12) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, since 1921 a U. S. Representative. He was the tenth Representative, the 14th member of the 74th Congress to die. When the House met at noon that day, it would have been customary to adjourn at once in tribute to the dead colleague. But Congress was straining for adjournment by week's end, and the conventional amenities were postponed for nearly three hours by routine business. Then Massachusetts' Treadway arose to present a resolution of adjournment. "Mr. Speaker," cried he to Speaker Joseph...
...something'' was the philosophy which Franklin Roosevelt announced two months ago at Baltimore. But last week, although it was touch and go whether Congress would adjourn June 6, the President took a strictly laissez faire attitude toward legislative matters. No message of his was rushed to the Capitol to spur jaded legislative steeds or to direct their course. At his press conferences he told newshawks that he really had not heard how the tax bill was getting...
...contestants as prizes. The rest goes for 32 brand-new alleys with colored gutters and chromium chalk-trays, 30,000 brand-new pins, later sold to the highest bidder, salaries to 200 pin-boys and scorekeepers. After five weeks of record attendance, the Congress last week was preparing to adjourn. Doings...
...women civil servants equal pay. Since the House was then sitting in committee, His Majesty's Government hastily won (149-to-134) a motion that the Speaker be returned to his chair. It could not, however, prevent Labor's Major Attlee from stampeding through a motion to adjourn a House divided between hilarious laughter and solemn indignation...
Meanwhile M. Flandin had bustled to Paris for the weekend. The Chamber of Deputies was about to adjourn for French general elections on April 26 and May 3. Stuffy Premier Albert Sarraut looked to his Foreign Minister to make a speech Frenchmen would like to hear. Applause rang out when M. Flandin told the Chamber that Italy was supporting France with the "frankest friendship" in London...