Word: adjournments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian diplomats are no respecters of each other's holy days. At the U.N. meeting in The Bronx last month, Soviet Delegate Gromyko proposed that the Security Council meet on Good Friday, was voted down. In Paris last week Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed that the peace conference adjourn for May 1, high point in the Red devotional year. His (Communistically) impious colleagues overruled...
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...Pearl Harbor Committee, which few lawyers regard as a possible stepping-stone to fame, finally found a new counsel, decided to adjourn for ten days so that he could catch up with the estimated 1,500,000 words of testimony and records before questioning Admiral Kinimel and General Short...
Colorado's hulking Ed Johnson, who sees no reason why the Army cannot be disbanded as fast as the Senate can adjourn, charged that some combat troops were "mowing lawns with bayonets" while they awaited discharge...
...Moslem League have sole right to nominate the Moslem ministers in India's projected new government? Mohamed Ali Jinnah said yes. The delegates of the All-India Congress, which also includes Moslem members, claimed the right to nominate at least one Moslem minister. The factions agreed to adjourn until July 14, so that their working committees could try to work out some compromise...