Word: adjournment
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Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission announced that it would adjourn "for the summer months" on July 29. Inasmuch as the proposed railway mergers of the Van Sweringen brothers (TIME, Aug. 18, Apr. 6, 27, June 8, BUSINESS) are before the Commission awaiting approval or rejection, the adjournment will probably prevent action until fall. Since the Van Sweringen merger is a "test case," other mergers will probably be postponed accordingly...
...Australia, Premier Bruce announced, last week, the Parliament will adjourn during the fleet's visit (July 23-Aug. 6). On the homeward voyage, detachments of the fleet will scour the Pacific. Tahiti, Tai-o-Hae, Nukuhiva, the Marquesas and Galapagos, as well as practically every Pacific possession of the U. S. except Guam, will be visited...
...Paul Hymans read to the First Assembly of the League of Nations a letter from the Argentine delegation, expressing disappointment because a motion to adjourn a discussion of amendments had been carried in opposition to the wishes of Argentina, and announcing the retirement of the delegation...
...Curtis got the floor. He moved to adjourn sine die. Senator Trammell demanded a 'quorum. Mr. Curtis said a quorum was not necessary. Senator Bingham, who was in the chair, put the motion. There was a loud chorus...
...himself observed, "no gentleman weighs more than 200 pounds") overrode the rules and counted silent Democrats, declared a quorum present, although the Democrats refused to answer to the roll call. One day, when the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, William McKinley, was supposed to move adjournment at a certain hour, but had not appeared on the floor, Mr. Reed pounded with his gavel and announced: "The gentleman from Ohio moves that the House do now adjourn"; and then, leaning over the rostrum, called in a stage whisper to the clerk: "Where in thunder is the gentleman from Ohio...