Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capitol to approve bills without pondering their wisdom. Nevertheless, he set to work with his flourishing big double-C signature. Cabinet members (all except Secretary of the Treasury Mellon were present) and learned Senators were called to his side to give a word or two of hasty advice. Six minor bills (such as "an act to reinstate Joe Burton Coursey in the West Point Military Academy") aroused the President's suspicion, so he decided to take them home. Failure to sign these six within ten days will kill them by "pocket veto...
...Passed a few minor bills and practically marked time waiting for the Senate to get ready for adjournment...
...five to seven years the period in which an alien may be deported for becoming a public charge or going insane in the U. S. It also provides for the deportation of any alien convicted of an offense and sentenced to one year or more in prison. Among the minor changes proposed is the abolition of "moral turpitude"-conviction for a felony being substituted-as a reason for refusing admission of foreigners to the U. S. The Senate must still act before the bill can become...
Married. Miss Carlotta Havemeyer, eldest daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer, purse-potent director of coal, copper, fruit, sugar and (minor) railway companies; to one Anson Alexander Bigelow of Philadelphia and Newport...
...organ recital in Appleton Chapel this morning from 9 to 9.10 o'clock. Dr. Prats will play the following numbers: Siciliano Bach Fugue in F minor Bach...