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Thus he is a very useful helper to the New Deal. When he dropped a hint, to Franklin Roosevelt's annoyance, that Congressmen would be doing the President a favor if they passed the Bonus over his veto, there is little doubt that he was trying to be politically helpful by killing the Bonus issue before the next election...
...would get most of his legislative program from Congress but everything was not rosy. His proposal to extend NRA for two years seemed about to take a licking (see p. 16). He had on paper only a bare margin to prevent passage over his veto of the Bonus Bill which would dump $2,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks on the nation. He had the problem of roundly rejustifying his whole program of lavish expenditure-in order to justify excluding the Bonus...
...Franklin Roosevelt not only looked as if he did not mind. He showed it. To farmers who "invaded" the Capital demanding more AAA (see p. 16), he made a rip-snorting speech. To rumors that he was going to wobble on his Bonus veto, he replied with a flat announcement that his veto would be as strong as he could make it. And two days later he electrified his press conference by abruptly grinding out a cigaret and saying he would not send a Bonus veto message. He would go to the Capitol and deliver it in person -the first...
...Joined the House in sending the Patman Bonus bill to the President for a certain veto...
...quest for freedom," proclaimed Senator Wagner when he produced his bill in the Senate last week. To some Senators it undoubtedly seemed so. Others had their minds more on the quest for reelection. Having bid for a share of the 3,500,000 veterans vote by voting for the Bonus, they wanted a share of the 3,500,000 A. F. of L. vote. Few Senators cared to fight the bill. Daniel Hastings of Delaware criticized it for what it did to labor minorities. Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland proposed to amend the bill by making it illegal for anyone...