Word: adjournments
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...attend the Crimson Key Dance, and those who do not happen to like Billy May and stuffy air are not dragged into the IAB. On the other hand any couple that prefers the sanctity and economy of a quiet evening in an individual suite should not be coerced to adjourn to a local...
...hold a full-dress conference on hemisphere economic problems in Rio (rather than Washington) next fall. Debated questions of human rights, the right of asylum, and revision of the Bogota pact for obligatory settlement of inter-American disputes, and agreed to act on all items in time to adjourn next week...
There is a certain engaging naivete about the laws since people will drink and dance at private parties even though bars and ballrooms are snapped closed at 12:01 a.m. But in sports, unfortunately, players cannot adjourn to someone's room for a last inning or goal. The blue laws were composed with a warped view of human nature; they now fit the times no better...
...stockholder had obtained a court injunction that prevented him from holding the meeting. Reason for the suit: Textron had not had enough time to get its plan before the American Woolen stockholders. Up jumped Lewis D. Gilbert, who makes a career of attending stockholders' meetings, to protest adjourning "this meeting without the approval of stockholders." Replied White: "But I'm the defendant. I am not permitted to go on with the meeting." In the confusion of other protests, Lawyer Robert H. Montgomery, company clerk, recognized a motion to adjourn until after the court hearing this week, and called...
...peace treaty. But they were confident that the Russians were neither able nor willing to pay the price of losing East Germany. Western strategy, according to word in Washington and London, will be to expose Russia's unwillingness to make a settlement, trumpet it to the world, then adjourn the conference in the hope that Europe might thereupon unite in firm purpose. But with the Russians, it has never been that easy...