Word: adjournments
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...present seemed to feel that the best thing next to do was to adjourn the meeting after a perfunctory session which lasted just three minutes...
...last month (TIME, April 29) ordered the Nickel Plate to "divest" itself of its Wheeling stock. Therefore, the Taplins argued, the Van Sweringens had no right to vote stock which they had acquired and were holding in defiance of the I. C. C. Compromising, the Van Sweringens voted to adjourn the meeting until August 1, at which date the legality of their Wheeling holdings will presumably have been settled. After the motion to adjourn had been carried, the Van Sweringen representatives left the meeting, but the Taplins continued with a meeting of their own. They elected Frank Taplin president...
...House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill amended. Perhaps as much as two months will be spent in Senate wrangling over the measure. Congress may not be able to adjourn before the end of summer...
...provision of the Constitution is to be reconciled with the instrument as a whole. The word "adjourn" appears several times in the text. Less than a quorum "may adjourn from day to day." Neither House shall without the consent of the other "adjourn for more than three days." "Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President....." In case the Houses disagree "with Respect to the Time of Adjournment" the President "may adjourn them to such Time...
...Professor N. H. Black '96 of the Physics Department will give a demonstration of new projection apparatus to be used in the physics laboratory. Professor Vannear Bush, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will then speak on "Certain Recent Developments in Machine Analysis." At 1 o'clock the meeting will adjourn to the Colonial Club, at 20 Quincy Street, where it will be the guests of the Physics Department at luncheon...