Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill shall not be returned [to Congress] by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return; in which case it shall...
Therefore, masterfully, the President said: "Taking into consideration the legislation enacted during the last session of the Congress, we find that for 1929 our receipts will be about $3,707,000,000 and our estimated expenditures $3,801,000,000. These estimates might seem to forecast a deficit." Insupportable thought, to be quickly dismissed by the prestige of a Presidential first person: "I do not face the coming year with any thought that we will not balance the budget. This nation is committed irrevocably to balancing the budget...
Tardiness obliged Midshipman Larry Cardwell to borrow and wear his neighbor's clothes one day in 1926 at the U. S. Naval Academy. He was dismissed. Tardiness by Congress in passing a bill to reinstate Midshipman Cardwell, or tardiness by President Coolidge in signing the bill, would have left Midshipman Cardwell in disgrace. But Congress acted in time and so, last week, with six hours to spare, did President Coolidge. The bill set forth that Midshipman Cardwell, an honest youth, had simply been pressed for time. His good name stands clear...
...Congress may of course protect the secrecy of telephone messages by making them, when intercepted, inadmissible in evidence in Federal criminal trials, by direct legislation, and thus depart from the common law of evidence. But the courts may not adopt such a policy by attributing an enlarged and unusual meaning to the Fourth Amendment...
...Telegraph Co. summed up the results of the decision: "We are disappointed . . . but it will not make any change in our policy. . . . Tap ping or otherwise tampering with telephone lines is an unlawful trespass upon the property of the companies which they will continue to resist. ... An act of Congress, such as the Chief Justice refers to, would exclude evidence obtained by government agents in this...