Word: adjourns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Held at the First Congregationalist Church, directly opposite the Radcliffe Yard, the meetings adjourn in ample time for students to get to their first classes. Dean Mildred P. Sherman and Miss Helen Cam, Radcliffe's new professor, are frequent visitors to the meetings which average a daily attendance of 20 odd girls...
...five months. It had been hawked around to almost every wheelhorse in the Democratic stable. Harry Truman had offered it to John Steelman, to the A.F.L. Teamsters' old "Uncle Dan" Tobin, to New York's ex-Senator James Mead. Caught by surprise when Congress decided abruptly to adjourn, Truman told Democratic Chairman Howard McGrath to call Tobin in Boston and to tell him-not consult him, but tell him-that his nomination was going up to the Senate...
...closing days, the smooth-running 80th Congress clanked and rattled like a leaky donkey engine. Amid the wheeze and hiss of escaping oratory and the crunch of jammed legislative gears, responsible Republican leaders set themselves a double objective. They wanted to adjourn in time for the G.O.P. convention, but they did not want to see the Soth's record marred by last-minute haste...
...Teeny, Weeny Bill." Then the word came from Martin's office. Congress would work all night until it got a housing and a farm bill, then adjourn. Tired conferees met for yet another session. At 2:45 a.m. the housing compromise was ready. It wasn't much. Oklahoma's Mike Monroney called it "a teeny, weeny housing bill." It provided only for a government secondary market for G.I. mortgages, authorized veterans cooperative apartments. Wolcott...
When Spaak sat down, it was clear that he had his majority. Even most of the Socialists applauded. But he refused to settle for "most." "Monsieur le President," he said quickly, "I see I am not supported by my own party. I beg you to adjourn the session." He strode out, drove to the royal palace, formally handed his resignation to Regent Charles. Then he took his wife out for a good dinner...