Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discusses the work done since its last meeting and the new problems which have presented themselves. In the early years of the League we had to encourage and beg countries to let us help them, but now we are besieged with so many requests that it is a matter of choosing the ones we will deal with...
When Mr. Wilder was asked about "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and his literary plans for the future, the author said, "The book was written between the duties of a teacher at a preparatory school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey under the growing feeling that its subject matter and the catastrophe of the opening page would forever cut it off from a wide circle of friends. At present I have finished about a quarter of a work to be entitled "The Woman of Andros," my first novel--in the sense that the others were collections of novelettes. The new book...
...their Adjournment" prevent its return. Adjournment from day to day is clearly not such an occasion. Adjournment sine die would seem clearly to be a case where the bill could not be returned within ten days. A more difficult question--not directly presented in the Okanogan case--is the matter of adjournment for longer than ten days during the continuance of a session, as, e.g., over the Christmas holidays. The "pocket veto" is conditioned on this: that Congress by their action prevent etc. Unless we are to accuse Gouvernor Morris of careless draughting, we can scarcely construe this to denote...
...Congress twice considered the matter of "pocket vetoes." The 40th Congress had adjourned from March 30 to July 3, 1867. On July 8 a question was raised as to the status of a bill which the President had declined to sign during this interim. Rep. Eliot of Mass. suggested that it had become a law. But no member rose to share his view, and the House, recognizing that it was not a law, resolved that it be reenrolled and resubmitted. The Senate discussed the question but took no action. Senator Trumbull declared: "If we were not in session...
...question arose as to the "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...