Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most vetoing President was Grover Cleveland, who wrote 350, had only two overridden. Most overridden President was Andrew Johnson, who had 15 vetoes beaten. Records of recent Presidents: Woodrow Wilson, vetoes 33, overridden six; Warren Gamaliel Harding, vetoes five, overridden none; Calvin Coolidge, vetoes 20, overridden four; Herbert Hoover, vetoes 33, overridden three; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, vetoes 27, overridden...
...page report on TVA for fiscal 1934 was issued in four copies. One was whisked out of sight at the White House, two went to TVA headquarters. The fourth remained in the Comptroller General's Office, subject to inspection by Congressmen but not the general public. Representative Andrew Jackson May of Prestonsburg, Ky., a member of the House Military Affairs Committee, visited the Comptroller General's office with a consulting engineer named John E. Cassidy who made extracts from the report which last week came out piecemeal at the Committee hearings...
Next day the meticulous Times made this correction: "John V. W. Reynders did not borrow a nickel from Andrew W. Mellon yesterday. . . . Mr. Reynders did indeed ask Mr. Mellon for a loan of 5¢ but his employer ... did not have the money...
Reported the New York Times: "During a recess of the Mellon case being heard before the Board of Tax Appeals, John V. W. Reynders of New York, one of Mr. Mellon's chief advisers, overtook Andrew W. Mellon in a corridor outside the courtroom and was heard to whisper what sounded like, 'Lend me a nickel, Andy.' Anyway he got the nickel and disappeared into a telephone booth...
...narrow comps, Andrew G. Webster, II '37 and Andrew T. Nelson '37 finished first and second, in 3 minutes, 36 seconds. Henry W. Locke '38 and Selden T. Rodgers '36 finished in that order in the broad race, Locke's time being 3 minutes, 36 seconds. Tying for first in the wherry race were Hallock C. Campbell 3G and Harry R. Ames '38, who covered the course in 4 minutes, six seconds...