Word: adjourns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This issue (prohibition) will be in the minds and upon the lips of the voters from the day the conventions adjourn until the day the polls close. Everybody, except the deaf and dumb and the candidates, will discuss...
...Speaker uttered, for the first time in a decade, an antique command: "Let candles be brought in!" When debate was recommenced by candlelight, jocund Members testified to the inconsequence of the proceedings by blowing out the candles as fast as they were lighted, until it became necessary to adjourn the House while electricians tinkered...
...honorable members apparently do not desire the debate to proceed under the standing orders, I adjourn the House." Once more the mace was removed and once more the M. P.'s trooped out. As Mr. Baldwin walked out there were hisses and booes and cries of "coward...
...American colleges and universities who have had industrial experience will be held at Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, in the first week of November. A. J. Muste, Dean of Brookwood Labor College, will preside over the assembly, which will meet on the evening of November 4 at 8 o'clock and adjourn November 6 at noon...
...hours before the Grand Jury, smoked cigars with gusto, was then motored back to jail where no cigars are permitted. The jury also heard testimony from Mis? Meade and had previously been given the evidence found in the black boxes. After hearing the Stephenson story the jury refused to adjourn, although the term of criminal court for which they were sitting ended last week, but voted to continue their investigation through August and were expected to return indictments in September...