Word: adjournments
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...constant stream of visitors makes the editorial office pleasantly chaotic. On Saturdays the staff, and any friends who happen by, adjourn to an Italian restaurant for a long lunch. Says Marion Strobel: "Then we all dangle our feet in Lake Michigan and otherwise behave like poets...
While graduate students adjourn for a special meeting and a luncheon, Dean Mildred P. Sherman, Dean Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, and Susanna J. Ehrentheil '48' president of the student government, will speak to the undergraduates
Rayburn declared he could tie things up for two weeks with stalling tactics. That would mean wrecking the G. O. P. high command's plans for Congress to adjourn Saturday...
...home politices hastened to adjourn for a summer vacation, international diplomats warmed up for a new Paris Conference Saturday, with two reports from the French capital indicating wide support of the Marshall aid-Europe plan. One report said that Czechoslovakia had accepted a British-French invitation to attend despite Russia's adverse stand; the other concerned a vote of confidence given to Premier Paul Ramadier's coalition cabinet by the French Socialist Party, which at the same time approved the principle of the Marshall plan...
...doldrums of a warm June week, G.O.P. leaders made one decision. They would not adjourn Congress sine die on July 31. Instead they would recess until next January, with the provision that Congress could be recalled by either the majority or minority leadership. Republicans felt they could not leave the country in sole charge of Harry Truman. They wanted to be ready to rush up like a bucket brigade any time next fall if fire broke...