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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...bill... which passed the two Houses at the last session of Congress, having appeared to me liable of abuse..., and therefore not been signed; and having been presented at an hour too near the close of the session to be returned with objections for reconsideration, the bill failed to become a law." Other Presidents who have expressly or implicitly concurred in the belief that the "pocket veto" is efficacious at the end of any session of a Congress include Jackson, Tyler, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge. The practice was upheld...
...shipped to New York in anticipation of the National Indoor Championships in which the University team will compete next Thursday. The Gunners started off vigorously and held a fair margin throughout the first four chukkers. During the fifth period, however, Captain Crispin Cooke '32 of the Harvard horsemen scored two goals and squared the score at five...
...chukker was filled with furious riding. Caswell of the Battery A team started things with a beautiful full-stroke goal made at top speed. W. F. Luton '32 soon retaliated with a counter for the Crimson, but Read and Norton put the game on ice for the Gunners with two more scores...
Professor L. P. Jacks, principal of Manchester College, Oxford, will deliver two lectures, under the auspices of the Dowse Institute, on Thursday and Friday. The subject of the first is to be "Religious Difficulties in Early Life", and that of the second, "Sightseeing. Time Thinking, and Religion." Both will be given in New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock and will be open to the public...