Word: adjournment
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...headed by Representative Michener of Michigan. He said, as everyone knew he would, that Judge English had handed in his resignation a week before, that President Coolidge had accepted it, that the primary purpose of the impeachment proceedings had been accomplished. Then Senator Charles Curtis moved that the Senate adjourn as a court of impeachment until Dec. 13. Since Congress reconvenes on Dec. 6, the House will have a week to confirm the recommendation of its Managers to abandon the trial of Judge English...
...much to hope that this council at Lausanne can find a way by which a perfect creed can be created. The conference will meet, will deliberate and will adjourn; and that is about as far as church unity will progress...
...from Peking (TIME, April 5, et seq.) its co-conquerors, Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin, would set up a stable government. That hope has eluded fulfillment like a mirage and Peking has grown hot, hotter, too hot. Last week the delegates passed a motion to adjourn indefinitely, packed their traps and trinkets, departed...
...Frazier of North Dakota, Greene of Vermont, Pepper of Pennsylvania, Stanfield of Oregon, McLean of Connecticut and Metcalf of Rhode Island, sat around the snowy napery of the President's breakfast table. They lifted their eyebrows significantly and discussed whether or not the heat might force Congress to adjourn about the middle of June...
...York's Democratic Senator, called on the President to explain his bill for preventing strikes in the anthracite industry. A committee of the National Training Camps Association called to discuss the costs of summer military training. Speaker Longworth called to tell the President that he hoped Congress could adjourn by the middle of June...