Word: adjournments
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...concluded a long and bitter attack on the government's gasoline rationing policy. Lloyd swept his eyes over the thinned-out ranks of the Laborites, and turned to the Speaker. Said he: ". . . We . . . propose to divide the House," i.e., call for a vote on an earlier motion to adjourn...
Clement Attlee had laughed because he knew the Tories did not want the Labor government to resign on the strength of a losing vote on a motion to adjourn. Next day, Attlee twitted the Conservatives for their "ambush" tactics, declared he refused to regard the issue as one of sufficient weight. "We carry on," he told the House. Said Tory Winston Churchill: "May I express to the Prime Minister our thanks . . ." The Labor benches interrupted him with a roar of laughter. Churchill glanced up, saw the joke, then concluded: ". . . for [his] full and careful statement." The Laborites were still...
After the two year period of basic medicine is over, the embryonic dentists adjourn to their own class and clinic to complete the course which will give them a Doctorate of Dental Medicine...
Following the ceremony, the undergraduates will remain to hear speeches by Joan Braverman '50, president of the Student Government Association, and Deans Sherman and Kerby Miller. Graduates will adjourn to a special graduate meeting...
...same gilt & cream chamber where the De Rothschilds once practiced their financial wizardry.* Delegates from 19 OEEC areas had come to La Muette to work out a new Intra-European Payments plan. After hours of futile argument, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak suggested that the meeting adjourn. Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps cut him short with a crisp insistence. "Gentlemen, I have to go back to England tomorrow," he said, "but my plane does not leave until 6 in the morning. I am at your disposal until then...