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...stick. Whereas all other Presidents have been content to let Congressional clerks read out their objections to bad measures, nothing less than the rostrum of the House of Representatives would serve him as an eminence from which to thunder his disapproval of the Patman Bill to prepay the soldier Bonus with printing press money...
...rostrum. In the hush that followed the outburst of applause, the ice tinkled out as Secretary Marvin McIntyre poured his chief a glass of water. Laying his glasses on the lectern, President Roosevelt, unsmiling, began to read his message, a thorough, unequivocal rebuttal to the advocates of bonus and greenbacks...
...saying, Franklin Roosevelt swung around to the desk above him where Vice President Garner and Speaker Byrns had sat in sphinxlike pomp and handed Speaker Byrns the vetoed Bonus Bill and the original of his speech. While applause rang through the House Speaker Byrns wrung the President's hand, congratulated...
When he departed, the Senate filed out. A few minutes later, Speaker Byrns put the question: Should the Bonus Bill be re-passed, the President's objections thereto to the contrary notwithstanding? President Roosevelt had hardly got back to the White House before the Speaker announced the result: 98 to sustain the veto, 322 to override. Net effect of the President's speech on the House-six votes switched against the Bonus...
...Union for Social Justice. But it did feel the emotional appeal of the sweating orator on the platform. At will the plump priest changed boos for the "prostituted press" to resounding cheers for assembled newshawks. In a phrase he switched catcalls at Senator Wagner's vote against the Bonus to huzzahs for Senator Wagner, "the friend of Labor...