Word: adjournment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular President was held to be an ailing lame duck. Four 1960-minded Democratic Senators -Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy-appeared on every score card. But by the time the 86th Congress got ready to adjourn this week for its half-time break, the four Democratic hopefuls had learned the dangers of underrating the other team. The four...
Scheduling fast action on minimum programs, scaled down drastically from bold forecasts at the beginning of the 86th Congress, the leaders decided to call it -quits, adjourn this week if possible. Muttered one thoughtful Demo cratic Senator: "We've been gutted, absolutely gutted...
Only a week remained before Parlia-rrfent would adjourn for the summer, and according to the rules Her Majesty's loyal Opposition had the right to choose the issues to be debated. The decision was an easy one: nowhere was the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in deeper trouble than in its Africa policy...
...Djuanda was at first evasive, finally lost his temper and shouted that "unpredictable things may happen"-a thinly disguised threat of a military takeover if the assembly did not get a move on. Angrily, the assemblymen three times refused to pass Sukarno's plan, and then voted to adjourn...
...concerned citizens, anxious to hear three board members who had promised a new solution. But after a look at the crowd's mood (two earlier meetings had broken up in fist fights), the three board members decided to keep their plan to themselves, and another member moved to adjourn the meeting. "The time for solution is now!" cried one citizen, and with that a riot erupted. The angry crowd dragged two board members from the stage, beat them with chairs and anything else handy. With the auditorium a maelstrom of flying bodies, county police in 24 prowl cars moaned...