Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program calls for an informal dance on the evening of Friday, April 12. On the following morning there will be a meeting of the Model Council to discuss the Bolivia-Paraguay question. In the afternoon an Assembly meeting will be held on the subject of disarmament. A formal banquet in the evening will be followed by a feature unprecedented in Model Assemblies--a meeting based on the organization of the International Labor Office at Geneva...
...Congress twice considered the matter of "pocket vetoes." The 40th Congress had adjourned from March 30 to July 3, 1867. On July 8 a question was raised as to the status of a bill which the President had declined to sign during this interim. Rep. Eliot of Mass. suggested that it had become a law. But no member rose to share his view, and the House, recognizing that it was not a law, resolved that it be reenrolled and resubmitted. The Senate discussed the question but took no action. Senator Trumbull declared: "If we were not in session...
...question arose as to the "pocket veto" of bills during an adjournment from December 20 to January 6. This was rather difficult, being the matter of a mere 17 day pause in the work of a session. Senator Edmunds introduced a bill to declare that the "pocket veto" could be exercised only at "the final adjournment of a session." Senator Sumner agreed with this interpretation. In the debate on the proposal Senator Bayard declared: "The very object of the clause looks to the fact that the bill should be returned during the session of the House in which it originated...
Finally, the Supreme Court has already, in an obiter dictum, given an interpretation of the clause in question. (175 U.S. 423 at 454). "If by its action, after the presentation of a bill to the President during the time given him by the Constitution for an examination of its provisions and for approving it by his signature, Congress puts it out of his power to return it, not approved, within that time to the House in which it originated, then the bill fails, and does not become...
...Exeter debate trials to be held at 3 o'clock today in Holden Chapel. The proposition to be discussed with the schoolboys on Friday is: "Resolved, That this house approves the Baumes Law" and candidates are asked to prepare a three-minute speech on either side of this question...