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...they could get arbitration for the future. But the miners answered it flatly: "No arbitration!" Each side tried to present its plan in such a guise that the other would accept it. Each time the other side refused to be "fooled." Finally one of the operators moved to adjourn sine die, subject to call. The miners refused to second the motion. So one of the operators seconded it. Then both miners and operators voted to adjourn...
Since I have no complaints to make about TIME, why do I write? Because I wish Mr. Roy E. Larsen would change his methods. To say the least, he is certainly wasting your money. The inclosed card and a letter is the third I have received sine I have been a subscriber. Two I returned to him stating that fact. This one I am sending to you, asking if you will not see that he stops sending soliciting letters to those who are already subscribers...
...theatergoer can forgive the new Jewett company for the similar happening on the opening night of the new theatre. The first performance of "The Rivals" was a state occasion, and dedicatory speeches and a host of acknowledgements were not only in order, but an indispensable sine qua non to mark the event. But to present the second offering in their repertoire, sans the delay of congratulatory speeches, to the tune of a performance well over three and a half hours long is as imprudent as it is inexcusable...
Then the miners and operators each asked the other two formal questions- whether they would yield on certain points. Each side refused. So the miners moved that the negotiations stand adjourned sine die, subject to resumption at the call of either side-and it was agreed...
...following noon. Their undertaking was successful- so successful, indeed, that the tensity of feeling among the majority found sardonic expression in the words of Vice President Marshall, who at the stroke of noon, halted the last of the filibusters by declaring the Senate of the 65th Congress adjourned sine deo, instead of sine...