Word: adjourns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock, the alumni will adjourn to the Harvard Club of Boston for dinner, and for the climax of the day, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, President of the Alumni Association, will speak. He is to be followed by Robert P. Patterson, Assistant Secretary of War, and the meeting will end with a speech by President Conant...
...away. Clamping his teeth on an unlighted cigar, he shook a few limp hands, slapped a few backs, announced heartily: "Just feel my arms, feel those muscles in my legs. Boys, I'm hard as nails." One of the first things he asked was why Congress did not adjourn...
Next day Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to reply to Adolf Hitler-and to tell his own people what was in store for them. The Prime Minister was also jaunty. Although the House had had to adjourn for an hour during an air raid, Mr. Churchill's humor was intact. He began by paying his respects to his foe ("No doubt Herr Hitler will not like this transference of [U.S.] destroyers"), went on to express his confidence that Hitler's Empire would pass away more quickly than did Napoleon's Army ("although of course...
...vote for myself if I ran away from duty at this time," declared Arizona's sesquipedalian Senator Ashurst. Sam Rayburn heard much of the same from his colleagues in the House, growled that "a great many of them, if there was a secret ballot, would vote to adjourn. ..." First sign that Congress' public sense of duty might prevail sprang from an even greater phenomenon: a fear among Congressmen that they were not taxing the people for Defense as heavily as the people wanted to be taxed. Testifying on a bill to broaden the Federal income-tax base, raise...
...session (with temporary recesses for the G. O. P. and Democratic conventions) was too loud for the Administration to ignore. The President found it expedient to deny that he had ever bade Congress be done and be gone. Sam Rayburn and House Speaker William Bankhead, who had been preaching adjournment by June 22, also gave up. Said Mr. Bankhead, while Sam Rayburn nodded his homely old head in agreement: "I think that we might as well be candid about it. I don't think that we can adjourn as planned...