Word: adjournment
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They had assumed that June heat, plus the imminent G. O. P. convention, would make Congressmen more than glad to grind out the necessary Defense legislation and adjourn as quickly as they could...
...vote for myself if I ran away from duty at this time," declared Arizona's sesquipedalian Senator Ashurst. Sam Rayburn heard much of the same from his colleagues in the House, growled that "a great many of them, if there was a secret ballot, would vote to adjourn. ..." First sign that Congress' public sense of duty might prevail sprang from an even greater phenomenon: a fear among Congressmen that they were not taxing the people for Defense as heavily as the people wanted to be taxed. Testifying on a bill to broaden the Federal income-tax base, raise...
...session (with temporary recesses for the G. O. P. and Democratic conventions) was too loud for the Administration to ignore. The President found it expedient to deny that he had ever bade Congress be done and be gone. Sam Rayburn and House Speaker William Bankhead, who had been preaching adjournment by June 22, also gave up. Said Mr. Bankhead, while Sam Rayburn nodded his homely old head in agreement: "I think that we might as well be candid about it. I don't think that we can adjourn as planned...
...Make up their minds whether to adjourn early (as Franklin Roosevelt and his Democrats wish) or run right up to the G. O. P. and Democratic conventions, when the Congressional politicians will begin to find out how well they have done their work...
Accompanied by the West Point band, the soldiers will enter the yard and put on several complicated formations in the Sever Quadrangle, as in past years, and then break ranks to adjourn to the Union for lunch...