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...continuance of a session, as, e.g., over the Christmas holidays. The "pocket veto" is conditioned on this: that Congress by their action prevent etc. Unless we are to accuse Gouvernor Morris of careless draughting, we can scarcely construe this to denote only that last adjournment which is not pursuant to the will of Congress, but in obedience to the Constitution which limits the life of a Congress to two years...
This investigation was made between Feb. 28 and June 30, 1919, pursuant to instructions from the Secretary of War which required an estimate of the value of the work of the Y. M. C. A. and the proportion of the welfare work which was accomplished by the Y. M. C. A. Those who were in France during the period of this inquiry will recall that the investigation was thorough, and that there was at least no prejudice in favor of the "Y" on the part of the investigators. In every major command, officers and enlisted men were required to testify...
...country for its failure to enforce laws enacted by the Congress of the United States. Speaking for the national Democracy, this convention pledges the party and its nominee to honest effort to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment and all other provisions of the Federal Constitution and all laws enacted pursuant thereto...
Henry Mauris Robinson, California lawyer-banker: "General Electric Co. last week elected me a director, pursuant to its plan of having each region of the U. S. represented on its board of directors. Thus once more I am associated in vast fiscal enterprise with Owen D. Young, Chairman of General Electric's directors. We, with Charles G. Dawes (Chicago banker, U. S. Vice President), organized the Dawes Plan of German Reparations payments (TIME, Dec. 20); and we were both members of the Second Industrial Conference called by President Wilson in 1919." Gloria Swanson, cinema actress, who married a marquis...
...pursuant to his much derided attempt to inform the press of its duty to support the administration, the President has told the public that it should not criticize his postponement of arbitration with Mexico because he does not believe it "knows the facts". What the facts are which justify the so-called policy of the Administration in its semi-hostility to Mexico seems to be a question too erudite for common knowledge. Those that have been revealed, are not much more conclusive than were Kellogg's astounding accounts or a Central American "Bolshevist hegemony". They consist for the most part...