Word: pocketing
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After Congress passes a bill, the President has ten working days to veto it, says the Constitution. He can do so in two ways: 1) he can return the measure to Congress unsigned; or 2) if Congress has adjourned, he can do nothing, exercising the pocket veto. Unlike the normal veto, the pocket veto cannot be overridden by a two-thirds vote. President Reagan tried one last November. The measure in question was a bill declaring that there should be no military aid to El Salvador unless the President could report improvements in that nation's human rights record...
...last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia disallowed Reagan's pocket veto after hearing a suit brought by 33 House Democrats. Their argument: Congress had not adjourned, but was merely off on a break between sessions, and had designated the House clerk and the Senate secretary to receive any presidential missives. Unless the White House successfully appeals to the Supreme Court, the decision makes illegal, technically, the $64 million dispensed to El Salvador in military aid since Nov. 30 of last year...
...banking department with savings and checking services in 1899 that paid 5% interest on deposits, then folded the operation in 1903. But that was later. In 1886, then a restless 23-year-old railroad-station agent in North Redwood, Minn., Sears bought a consignment of gold-filled pocket watches that had been rejected by a local jeweler, resold them to other station agents at a $2 profit apiece and founded the R.W. Sears Watch Co. A year later he added a watch repairman, Alvah C. Roebuck, to his staff. In 1888 came the initial catalog, containing only watches...
...Theodoracopulos, 45, acid-penned society columnist, earlier for Esquire, now for Vanity Fair, under his well-known nom de plume Taki; to 16 weeks' imprisonment for cocaine possession, after his arrest at Heathrow Airport last month with 23.1 grams of the drug, worth $2,000, in his back pocket; in London. Taki pleaded guilty, but plans to appeal the sentence...
DIED. Philip Van Doren Stern, 83, prolific, versatile novelist, editor and historian, whose Civil War-era writings include a biography of Robert E. Lee, an anthology of Lincoln's writings and a history of the Confederate navy; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. An editor at Pocket Books between 1933 and 1954, he presided during World War II over the Armed Services Editions, those much treasured paperbacks light enough to be carried into battle. Author or editor of 44 books, he also wrote The Greatest Gift, a 1944 Christmas fantasy about a man who discovers that life...