Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore obliged to return Senate bill 4808 . . . without my approval...
...Senate received last week a document (nearly 11,000 words*) concluding with these words and signed with the big C-flourish of the signature: Calvin Coolidge. It was his expected veto of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill...
Those in favor of the bill were too inclined to shout as their major argument: "Something must be done. The McNary-Haugen bill is something-we don't know exactly what. Give it a try; it may not be so bad as it looks...
Whereas, the President, representing the negative, was able to cite dozens of specific defects in the bill and to suggest dozens of specifically evil consequences which, it could not be denied, might arise. Nevertheless, no Martian and few Earthmen could say that the President triumphed as a statesman. For this reason...
...President gave as basic rea-ons for vetoing the McNary-Haugen bill...