Word: adjournments
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...five minutes to adjourn for another three days...
...Peabody sat down in the front row to coach other Dry witnesses with "Stick to your statement," "Don't answer that," "Don't give any names." Her asides, discovered next day in the stenographic transcript, precipitated such a ruction within the committee that Chairman Graham had to adjourn the meeting for the members "to cool...
...Politics. In sharp contrast to the first year of Woodrow W'ilson, the Hoover record on which its supporters must stand in the campaign is blank, except for Farm Relief, still largely experimental. Unless the monster tariff can be got out of the way Congress is likely to adjourn in June with little else accomplished. Old Guard leadership is shattered. Where the President stands on tariff rates is anybody's guess. The House has lost interest in piling up legislation it knows the Senate can never touch...
Into President Hoover's office at the White House last week marched two Senators-Jones of Washington, Walsh of Montana; and two Representatives-Til-son of Connecticut, Garner of Texas. They came to perform a traditional ceremony- notification of the President that Congress was about to adjourn. Congressman Tilson truly declared that the House had finished its program. When Senator Jones's turn came to speak for the Senate, he repeated the historic phrase: "Mr. President, the Senate has completed its work-" Then he qualified: "-as far as possible." It was all the others present on this solemn...
Even Republican Generalissimo Smoot voted against adjournment. He cried: "My duty is to stand by the bill and if God gives me strength, that is what I'll do. If it kills me, all right. . . . If the Senate wants to adjourn I'd say THANK GOD but I will never ask for it myself...