Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They adjourned after announcing that the June meeting of the Council will be held for the first time in Madrid...
...Indiana, wrote it down that "A woman named Coatlicue or Snake-petticoat [the mother of Mexitl] . . . one day . . . saw a little ball of feathers floating down to her through the air, which she taking . . . found herself in a short time pregnant. . . . Then immediately [Mexitl] was born, fully armed . . . and held as a god, born of a mother without a father?as the great God of Battles...
...North Arlington, N. J., Author Bryan Hamilton Connolly, aged 14, pondered. The manuscript of his unfinished novel, The Marble Coffin, lay before him, and he had just written: "Your kids are being held for $500,000 ransom. Beginning tomorrow we will cut an ear off each one every day until the money is sent to us. When the ears are gone we will cut off their toes one by one." It was an effective piece of writing, but how would normal parents react to such a letter? Author Connolly, recalling the existence of his nine-year-old brother...
...Claims jurisdiction to hear the suit of the Okanogan Indians. On July 3, 1926--less than ten days thereafter--the first session adjourned sine die. The President did not sign the bill, nor did he return it to Congress with his objections. Did the bill become a law? No, held the Court of Claims. Yes, contended counsel for the Indians, who appeal to the Supreme Court...
...fact that the bill should be returned during the session of the House in which it originated." The Senate passed Senator Edmunds' bill, 29:11. The vote means just this: 29 Senators believed that any adjournment sine die would give occasion for a "pocket veto", while 11 held that any interruption of more than 10 days would suffice. No one seems to have dreamed of suggesting that the "pocket veto" was restricted to the close of the last session of a Congress...