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...interim. Fame had come to Floyd Dell. He had written some novels that sold [Moon Calf, The Briary Bush, This Mad Ideal]. Lately he biographed Upton Sinclair, the California liberty-shouter. The past winter the innocuous father farce Little Accident, based on his book The Unmarried Father, has been a money-getter on Broadway...
...Engineers will have rowed two races, one of which ended in a sweeping victory over the Navy on the Severn last week. On May 18 the Crimson eight will face the crew from Annapolis on the Severn, having met Cornell on the Charles in the interim...
...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...
...still the youngest Cardinal in the Curia. In 1920 he became Cardinal Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church (administrator of the property and revenues of the Holy See). Should the present Pope die, Merry del Val as Cardinal Camerlengo would be in charge during the interim before the new Pope was consecrated...
...Socialist votes were impotent to elect that party's hastily improvised candidate, Herr Doktor Karl Renner, onetime Socialist Chancellor (1919). Had the deadlock continued after the term of President Hainisch expired, last week, he would have been automatically succeeded by Chancellor Seipel, who would have become President ad interim. Above all Socialists did not want that. Therefore they abstained, 91 strong, thus permitting the election by only 94 votes of Dr. Wilhelm Miklas, an unimportant figure, though Speaker of Parliament...