Word: adjournments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republicans named Kenneth S. Wherry, 50, State senator in 1928-32, an auto dealer in Pawnee City, who believes the Republican party "will not adjourn politics now or ever." Genial, able Businessman Ken Wherry has for several years been a background force in Nebraska politics...
Such a law would go far to hamstring such public debate as prompted the reorganization of OPM and the Office of Civilian Defense. Said Senator Harry S. Truman, of the Truman Committee investigating the war program: If the bill is ever enacted, his committee "might as well adjourn." He meant that witnesses would find most of their data marked "secret" or "confidential...
...days after Pearl Harbor, the chairmen of the Democratic and Republican Parties-Ed Flynn and Joe Martin-informed the President that they had formally agreed to adjourn politics "for the duration...
...years. Last night's flip-flop, one might imagine, should have proved a little difficult for even the most hardened joy-riders in the cab of the famous Locomotive of History. The Executive Committee's report, however, passed with all the ease and speed of a motion to adjourn. The Union found itself unanimously agreed that "the goal of all persons wishing to preserve democracy and the freedom of the peoples of the world must be the military defeat of Hitler." On May 31, 1941, the last public statement by the Union, before the summer vacation, declaimed: "We protest President...
...tried to start a Grass Roots revolt against him in 1938. But the railroads, two months ago, held the project up. Arguing that they had plenty of tank cars to do the work of any diverted tankers (in which the Army & Navy supported them), they persuaded the Legislature to adjourn without taking action. Now the Southeast faces an oil shortage...