Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Norris talked seriously of having the Muscle Shoals act declared law despite its "pocketing." His argument hinged upon the nature of the adjournment Congress has taken. If it is a thoroughgoing adjournment in the Constitutional sense of the word, then the bill is dead. But if it could be shown that the adjournment is merely ad interim, between sessions of the Seventieth Congress, then perhaps the President's failure to veto will have allowed the bill to become law. On this point the Constitution simply says...
...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 not be a law...
...Senator Glass's point was that such use of Federal Reserve funds is not only dangerous but outside the law's intention. The danger is patent: when more and more money is speculated, tension increases, crashes are thought to impend-and there is nothing that is, but thinking helps it to be so. The impropriety is less patent: the Federal Reserve law does not prohibit rediscounting of Federal securities for speculative purposes...
...called 'Harvard indifference' as it actually exists, strikes me as being one of the most commendable aspects of university life. It is a large happiness, though usually unappreciated, that Harvard upperclassmen do not persecute freshmen: that there is no law calling for universal 'hello's' in the Yard, that one can choose one's friends and enjoy their company without making a fuss about...
...clubs had developed in unforeseen manner and with no controlling influence. If Princeton authorities made no efforts to provide proper food or proper surroundings for students but merely furnished classrooms and faculty, the problem would hardly be one for discussion. The eating clubs would be entirely independent and a law unto themselves...