Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three-week visit to study, like any European, "conditions." Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Great Britain's impeccable Home Secretary, last week punctuated his campaign against indecency (TIME, Dec. 31), in which he has already suppressed eleven books, with a Final Appeal. Addressing a meeting of British authors in London, he said: "If we all work together we may be able to do something to relieve our country of the stigma which is undoubtedly on it at the present time because of the outpouring of so much filthy literature. Gentlemen and ladies,† I appeal to our better selves...
Engagement Reported. Playwright Eugene (Strange Interlude) O'Neill; to Danish-French actress Carlotta Monterey, onetime leading woman in Playwright O'Neill's The Hairy Ape. He cannot be married until a final decree of divorce has been granted to his second wife, Agnes Burton O'Neill, by whom he has two children, Una and Shane...
...difficulty inheres in the word "adjournment." It is the contention of counsel for the Indians that "only the final adjournment of the Congress prevents the return (and reconsideration) of a vetoed bill." That is to say, "adjournment" in the above clause means only adjournment by reason of the expiration of the mandate of the Congress, which occurs on March 4 in the odd-numbered years...
...pocket veto" of bills during an adjournment from December 20 to January 6. This was rather difficult, being the matter of a mere 17 day pause in the work of a session. Senator Edmunds introduced a bill to declare that the "pocket veto" could be exercised only at "the final adjournment of a session." Senator Sumner agreed with this interpretation. In the debate on the proposal Senator Bayard declared: "The very object of the clause looks to the fact that the bill should be returned during the session of the House in which it originated." The Senate passed Senator Edmunds...
...Field at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon under the direction of Coach J. L. Knox '98, mentor of the University second team. Leaving after the conclusion of this week's practice, Horween will be absent for about seven days but will return to Cambridge to take charge of the final week of the spring session...