Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Salamone, familiar to the police as members of the local alcohol "racket." Oliveri had lately joined the Capone "mob," deserting a rival faction. . . . That night, on the South Side, one James Reggi was murdered in an alley by revolver bullets. He had Oliveri's telephone number in his pocket. . . . Chicago's police admit that when "King" Capone leaves his underworld, jealous barons are likely to plot and shoot ambitiously...
...tenth day passed without the President's signing the Muscle Shoals bill. Ten years had passed while the bill was getting through Congress. The "pocket" method of vetoing saves a President the trouble, or embarrassment, of saying why he disapproves. Presumably, President Coolidge "pocketed" the Muscle Shoals bill because it called for Federal operation of the Government's Wartime power-plant on the Tennessee River and for Federal manufacture of fixed nitrogen, which is used in fertilizer and explosives. President Coolidge had urged that the Government lease or sell the power plant and let private interests make power...
...Senator Norris insists, the Supreme Court may have a nice stickler before it, though there is a precedent in the U. S. Court of Claims which would uphold the Muscle Shoals "pocket veto...
...Another bill "pocket vetoed" last week was a $3,500,000 appropriation for Federal fish farms. . . . Another, a bill by Representative Fish of New York providing preferment for War veterans in Civil Service appointments...
...stags at the party chased them from time to time: there was a regrettable fracas when one of the latter, finding himself next a small female with a loud voice, attempted to stuff his handkerchief down her throat and cut off her hair, perhaps her head, with his pocket knife. An alderman took action and the party progressed without further untoward incident until the time came for eating...