Word: pockets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...69th Congress on June 24, 1926, and let it lie untouched before him until July 3, when the Congress adjourned, he little thought that he was laying the groundwork for a test case on a Presidential procedure more than a century old-the old procedure of Pocket Veto...
...legislative history contains some 120 measures similarly buried away under pocket vetoes since President' Madison, in 1812, first devised this oblique method of shelving legislation during the life of a Congress. A most recent and notable pocket veto was President Coolidge's disposal of the bill for Government operation of the Muscle Shoals plant (TIME, June 11). Other pocketed bills which would become law if the Okonogan Indians should win their case include a prohibition against the useless slaughter of buffalo (1874) and the acceleration of the Missouri-California mails from 38 to 30 days...
...pocket veto practice is covered by Section 7, Article 1 of the U. S. Constitution: "If any bill shall not be returned 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...
...Supreme Court is asked to interpret the words "by their adjournment." The pocket veto is indisputably valid when Congress, by final adjournment, expires on March 4 of odd years...
...believed that the Supreme Court will find no difficulty in sustaining the President's "pocket veto" in the Okanogan case...