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...something about Reparations at the Lausanne Conference, the London Observer announced last week that Britain, France, Italy, Belgium had agreed privately that conference delegates will submit a proposal to Washington to extend the Hoover Moratorium from July to Jan. 1, 1933, arrange to resume discussions before that time and adjourn the Lausanne Conference as soon as possible. This was typical of other decisions. Postponement had become a policy-and a hope...
Moscow assumed that as usual the Union Central Executive Committee would vote complete confidence in the Government and adjourn early in January, leaving Dictator Stalin (who runs the Committee by Communist wire-pulling behind the scenes) to run Russia...
...Cabinet. At Speaker Fitzroy's bidding the Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, led the House in orderly procession to sign the Roll (equivalent to swearing in). By the time 615 autographs had been affixed, the House was ready to adjourn. Parliament came to an abrupt standstill for several days while Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald put finishing touches to his revised National Government and wrote the Speech from the Throne later delivered by George...
After the dinner, to which members of the club and graduates have been invited, the members will adjourn to the Lowell House tower room, where several of the dialogues of Lucian, the Greek satirist, will be read by the students...
Last week the Supreme Court ran out of work. To the amazement of attendants and onlookers it was forced to adjourn for two days to give breathless attorneys a chance to catch up. Cases were scheduled on its calendar for oral argument throughout the week but by Thursday the court, geared up to fresh efficiency by Chief Justice Hughes, had heard them all and no others were ready for presentation. For once the highest tribunal was functioning faster than the lawyers practicing before it. After its next meeting the court regularly adjourned for three weeks to ponder cases heard, write...