Word: recessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half hours. At the outer gates, galleryites were beginning to arrive for the night session. Up to the microphone stepped Chairman Sam Jackson to pull the neatest parliamentary trick of the convention. He announced that Ballot II would be taken immediately, and that, since there was no recess, the convention was still in afternoon session and no tickets for the night meeting would be honored. Even at this late date the bosses were taking no chances on getting a Wallace gallery...
...last week's mid-season recess, few of these efforts toward superiority had availed. The American League clubs, with the St. Louis Browns leading, were bunched as closely as piglets at feeding time, showing the sharpest competition in history. And below the leading St. Louis Cardinals, there was almost as much competition in the National League. One team and one player had especially good sporting value to offer in baseball's Ersatz Epoch...
...opponents of the bill were shouted down, and in short order the bill was passed (283-10-54) and whisked to the Senate for action before the recess. There it fell afoul of Wyoming's monopoly-hating Joe O'Mahoney. Hastily he rounded up the Senate's Judiciary Committee and called Attorney General Francis Biddle to testify before it. Biddle gave his word that no prosecutions, except the current one against the Southeastern Underwriters Association (TIME, June 12), are contemplated until insurance companies have a chance to "digest" the Supreme Court decision. The Committee then shelved...
Already, said Jimmy Byrnes, the Army and the WPB have estimated exactly how much war production can be cut when Germany collapses. Soon the Army will send out instructions which will automatically go into effect on X-day. Mindful of the upcoming political conventions, he said: "To recess without action is a responsibility I don't think Congress should take...
...gross breach of Parliamentary rules. Quick to point out the breach was Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, himself a favorite target of Pouliot's interminable tirades. The Deputy Speaker upheld the Minister, ruled that Pouliot must withdraw his words. Pouliot declined. Then he was given the dinner recess to reconsider or be "named" (forced to leave the Chamber...