Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People using the sidewalk connecting Tremont and Mason Streets in Boston have been confronted this week with a sign announcing that a narrow strip of the pavement is the property of Harvard and that persons using it are legally trespassers...
...have never rowed before are to report to Coach E. A. Wachter, who is in charge of all new men. Others who have already passed their sculling tests must sign up at Weld to take out either a broad comp, a narrow comp or a single. A list of sculling rules is posted in both boat-houses and all men should familiarize themselves with them. Moreover all beginners are reminded that they must pass a swimming test at the Big Tree Pool before going out on the river...
...discharged. Miller began to serve his term last April. He behaved himself well in jail and was to have been discharged next July. Last December he was recommended for parole. In spite of the custom of releasing convicts at Christmas time. Attorney General Sargent did not see fit to sign the parole then. But he did not forget. He bided his time, until his last hour in office. Then, safe from the jibes of the Senate which was on the point of adjourning, Mr. Sargent set Col. Miller free...
...close of its first session the 69th Congress passed a bill conferring upon the Court of Claims jurisdiction to hear the suit of the Okanogan Indians. On July 3, 1926--less than ten days thereafter--the first session adjourned sine die. The President did not sign the bill, nor did he return it to Congress with his objections. Did the bill become a law? No, held the Court of Claims. Yes, contended counsel for the Indians, who appeal to the Supreme Court...
...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...