Word: adjourns
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...years. Last night's flip-flop, one might imagine, should have proved a little difficult for even the most hardened joy-riders in the cab of the famous Locomotive of History. The Executive Committee's report, however, passed with all the ease and speed of a motion to adjourn. The Union found itself unanimously agreed that "the goal of all persons wishing to preserve democracy and the freedom of the peoples of the world must be the military defeat of Hitler." On May 31, 1941, the last public statement by the Union, before the summer vacation, declaimed: "We protest President...
...tried to start a Grass Roots revolt against him in 1938. But the railroads, two months ago, held the project up. Arguing that they had plenty of tank cars to do the work of any diverted tankers (in which the Army & Navy supported them), they persuaded the Legislature to adjourn without taking action. Now the Southeast faces an oil shortage...
...Saturday morning a formal reception at William and Mary is planned for the visitors, with an address later by the Honorable Charles Francis Adams '88, President of the Board of Overseers. After the regular Board meeting, the Overseers will adjourn to meet in the afternoon at the restored House of Burgesses, the legislative body of the Old Dominion...
...Adjourn and go home...
...Retain in Congress power to rescind the Lend-Lease authority by concurrent resolution (simple majority) of both Houses. Meaning: not very much. As an academic argument against its effectiveness, Article 1, section 7 of the Constitution requires Presidential approval of all concurrent Congressional resolutions except to adjourn (customarily only those embracing legislation are submitted to the President). A two-thirds majority in each House would be needed to override his veto. Practically, such a resolution would require majority public opinion for passage. (This amendment, submitted by Representative Everett Dirksen of Pekin, Ill., was hailed as Republican coup-of-the-week...