Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...thousands and thousands had safely done before, 14 people went up sightseeing in a trimotored Ford plane at the Newark, N, J., airport last week. Motor trouble developed. The pilot tried a forced landing near railroad tracks. He could not prevent his machine, which was traveling 70 m. p. h., from smashing into a gondola filled with sand. All the passengers were killed. It was the worst air accident in U. S. history...
...Malvern, Pa., the Rev. Joseph Sproule preached and preached; he preached all morning and far into the afternoon; he ate his lunch in the pulpit. Thus did he prevent his appointed successor, the Rev. C. M. Marvine, who sat waiting in the congregation, from taking his post in the Malvern Methodist Church. That night, however, Pastor Marvine seized the pulpit, and church doors were locked against Pastor Sproule. Repulsed by guards with whom he tussled, Pastor Sproule held service in a nearby house. "I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," he cried. Late reports...
...speech of P. J. W. Bove '29 was the nucleus of the Crimson's case. Bove produced statistics to prove that the death penalty does not prevent crime, but may actually stimulate it. Brooks Otis '29, after an effective rebuttal of his opponents' use of emotional appeals, went on to popularize and stress the arguments presented first by Bove...
...will appear that "adjournment" may be not merely due to the expiration of the life of a Congress, but from day to day, or until a certain day, or sine die. The occasion upon whch an unsigned bill is "pocket vetoed" occurs when "the Congress by 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...