Word: adjournment
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...Senator Robert Kerr and Virginia's Democratic Representative Howard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee. The Senate had added $2 billion to the House-passed $2.3 billion rivers and harbors bill-the traditional pork-barrel measure. Conservative Smith was having none of such nonsense, and Congress could not adjourn until he and Kerr, who championed the Senate action, reached some sort of un derstanding. Confided Kerr: "This is between two old bastards-Bob Kerr and Howard Smith. Smith is determined to maintain his position. I am determined to maintain mine." In the end. Kerr gave...
Last week, asked at his press conference about the holdup on Marshall, President Kennedy said that he had received "assurances" that the Senate would not adjourn without taking action on Marshall's nomination. Whereupon South Carolina's Johnston at last brought the hearings to an end, moving Michigan's Democrat Philip A. Hart to exclaim: "Amen and thank heaven!" Still, Johnston indicated that it might take a while longer before the subcommittee actually got around to taking a formal vote on Marshall. Said Johnston: "I'm not predicting anything yet in regard to the matter...
Bush demanded a subcommittee vote on adjournment; Symington insisted firmly that he had a right to adjourn the subcommittee on his own. George Humphrey tried to get in a word: "Mr. Chairman . . ." Symington's reply dripped with sarcasm : " 'Senator' Humphrey would like to say something." Humphrey: Before you adjourn this, and I am very complimented at being called Senator Humphrey, but that is not the fact...
...political cause celebre (an anti-Jackson cartoon implying frivolity in high places was titled "The Celeste-al Cabinet''). Four years later, the sensational Fanny Elssler, the great European ballerina, was so popular in Washington that Congress, unable to reach a quorum when she performed, was forced to adjourn so that the members could watch her dance...
...last week, as Tunisia's Mongi Slim rapped his olive-wood presidential gavel to adjourn the Assembly, the U.N. was probably in better shape than at any time since Hammarskjold's best days. Russia had scored virtually no gains in the Assembly, suffered some severe defeats. Most notable was Moscow's failure to seat Red China as a U.N. member and to impose its troika scheme for a three-man U.N. executive, which would have paralyzed the world body's operations...