Word: adjourns
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Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson was first to go, then Oregon's Maurine Neuberger. Finally the founding member of the U.S. Senate's Pacific Northwest lonelyhearts club moved to adjourn permanently. In a Shoreham Hotel suite, Senate Chaplain Rev. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris married Washington's Warren G. Magnuson, 59, one of the capital's most sociable eligibles since shortly after his first marriage ended in divorce in 1935, to Mrs. Jermaine Peralta, 41, a Seattle widow. The 20 guests included Lyndon and Lady Bird, but though the bride looked properly serene, those wedding bells...
Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield rose in the Senate to propose that the Congress recess until after the Nov. 3 elections, then return to finish its work. A chorus of protest swept the chamber. In the House, California Democrat Chet Holifield cried: "This House should adjourn!" Congressmen cheered and clapped in agreement. In such a mood of rebellion, the lawmakers last week spurned the pleas of President Johnson and finally adjourned the 88th Congress...
Rauh replies that Johnson "won't budge." He is certain there will be no new compromise. Moses speaks of the rumor that the Credentials Committee may adjourn without making a report...
Rauh retorts that he will defeat the motion to adjourn by forming "a coalition with the South to force the Committee to report." Rauh's strategy still centers about the floor fight he believes is inevitable...
Rauh retorts that he will defeat the motion to adjourn by forming "a coalition with the South to force the Committee to report." Rauh's strategy still centers about the floor fight he believes is inevitable...