Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of personality, of course, enters, but there again personality is such a varied attribute that it is difficult to do more than generalize on such a theme...
...reason for this is not difficult to see. At the start, the runner, messenger, or Junior clerk is doing work that requires no more intelligence than a bright boy just out of grammar school and his services are worth no more than the same bright boy. While he is performing these lowly tasks, however, he is getting the "feel" of the business, which is most essential. He is learning not only what investment banking is all about, but he is learning the way in which it ties into other industries; not only the difference between a stock and a bond...
This picture has been very appropriately hung directly behind Brancusi's "Golden Bird" since this is the one piece of sculpture, the significance of which is as difficult for the casual observer to grasp as is that of Miro's painting...
...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 than ten days during the 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...
...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...