Word: adjourns
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...they met in carnival mood. No man there could foresee their mood when this Congress would adjourn. But now they were optimistic about the war, chip-on-shoulders about their Congressional prerogatives, determined to get at the mountainous tasks ahead...
...Luckily or unluckily, war does not wholly adjourn politics anywhere...
Republicans named Kenneth S. Wherry, 50, State senator in 1928-32, an auto dealer in Pawnee City, who believes the Republican party "will not adjourn politics now or ever." Genial, able Businessman Ken Wherry has for several years been a background force in Nebraska politics...
Such a law would go far to hamstring such public debate as prompted the reorganization of OPM and the Office of Civilian Defense. Said Senator Harry S. Truman, of the Truman Committee investigating the war program: If the bill is ever enacted, his committee "might as well adjourn." He meant that witnesses would find most of their data marked "secret" or "confidential...
...days after Pearl Harbor, the chairmen of the Democratic and Republican Parties-Ed Flynn and Joe Martin-informed the President that they had formally agreed to adjourn politics "for the duration...