Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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." The Senate passed Senator Edmunds' bill, 29:11. The vote means...
...early part of the nineteenth century was a rendezvous of the leaders of maritime Boston. The names over accounts in the ledger of John Jones, the proprietor, show that the patronage included statesmen like Daniel Webster, professional men like Harrison Gray Otis, and military men like General William H. Sumner, but the characteristic features of the house centered around shipping and merchants ship owners, as did the activities of all New England. The leading merchants of the day, like Thomas Handasyd Perkins, Isreal Thorndike, and William Sturgis and John Bryant of the Northwest fur trade, seem to have enjoyed...
...Vice-ferreter John S. Sumner, who caused her Temple of Pallas Athene to be suppressed, in 1925, as obscene...
Docket number 117 is the Pollock Club (Robinson, Gobin) versus the Lowell Club (Mandelker, Keyserling). The meeting will be at 12 Sumner Road with R. A. Efroymson 3L as chief justice...
This Committee on Iconography has collected a large number of photographs and prints for Lawrence Hall. Among these pictures are two reproductions of old prints of Harvard one showing a group of the older buildings, the other, portraying a quiet cricket game in progress in front of Sumner's monument near Harvard Square...