Word: adjournments
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...December 3 Congress assembles. It is then expected to adjourn in memory of the late President Harding. On December 4 the House will probably begin organization, but the Senate is likely to adjourn again in honor of its three members lately dead?Senators Dillingham of Vermont, Nelson of Minnesota, Nicholson of Colorado. On the 5th, the Senate will begin organization...
...operators were unwilling to adjourn without prospect of renewing the Conference. At their suggestion the Conference adjourned until the next day, to give both sides " time to think it over...
...your judgment is final," said John L. Lewis, " this Conference may as well adjourn, sine die, here...
...Ramsey Macdonald, British Labor Leader, in a recent number of the Socialist Review animadverts upon riotous behavior in the House of Commons: " I detest these scenes. One heated furnace of a man can lead the legitimate calls of ' adjourn ' into the badly sung strains of Rule Britannia or The Red Flag or Tipperary or fisticuffs and not only make a fool of himself but degrade everyone associated with him. Fascism was stimulated into life by communist tactics...
...Premier, answer questions personally. This he was unable to do, owing to his throat trouble. A statement to this effect was a signal for a general outburst of Laborite fury. The Red Flag was sung, and the uproar became so terrific that the Speaker was compelled to adjourn the session. In the general exit a good deal of inadvertent jostling occurred. One Laborite complained that he had been hit by a Conservative, whereupon Colonel the Hon. Walter E. Guinness (Under Secretary of State for War), who seems to have been perfectly innocent, received a punch on the nose...