Word: adjournments
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...this point, repeal of the arms embargo, and Senate adoption of the Pittman neutrality bill, seemed imminent certainties. Even the much-ignored and resentful House would probably whip through a bill in a few weeks, the wisemen believed. Congress might well adjourn before Thanksgiving...
When Mr. Chamberlain rose to answer that evening, he was obviously angry and shaken. His thin face, seldom giving an impression of vitality, was ashen and his voice was husky and low. With heavy sarcasm he wondered that Mr. Churchill dared let Parliament adjourn for even two weeks...
...against professional obstructors, sent his Legislature home from Austin with a near-zero record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record, adjourn with the least possible damage to their party. New York's Democrat Herbert Lehman recalled his Legislature to Albany to repair a budget which a Republican majority had unconstitutionally cut. But the unhappiest, unluckiest Governor of 1939 was California's Democrat Culbert Levy Olson...
Chief Justice Hughes, 77, was too ill (duodenal ulcer) to attend the Court's final session. For him doctors ordered a protracted rest. Justice McReynolds, disgruntled because the Court did not adjourn last week instead of this, passed up the final meeting (and the King & Queen's visit), departed on schedule for his annual visit to Elkton...
...Administration leaders on Capitol Hill let it be known that they would like Congress to adjourn by July 15, a date chosen because by then Mr. Roosevelt will have entertained the King & Queen in Washington and in Hyde Park and returned from his annual cross-country survey "to see what the nation is thinking." Until July 15 (at least) Congress will simmer in Washington over: 1) Neutrality legislation, which had seemed moribund until Secretary Hull pleaded last week for amendments to allow sale of arms to (good) nations at war, 2) a tax bill, 3) Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt could...