Word: adjourns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...haste to reach Washington in time for the reconvening of the Senate on Aug. 19. Reason: The Senate Finance Committee, badly stalled on tariff writing, admitted it could not complete its bill before next month. Gentlemen of the Senate had agreed to do nothing more than meet and adjourn for three-day periods until Sept. 3, when Chairman Reed Smoot of the committee was "almost sure" he would have the measure ready...
...first time the Latins realized that they must yield?or adjourn. As a last resort the French started a rumor that J. P. Morgan would consent to act as "mediator," obviously hoped he would. When the story was spiked from a source close to Mr. Morgan, who was in Scotland last week, Prime Minister Aristide Briand intimated that France might make "substantial concessions...
...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...
...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...