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...originally suggested. Though he could reshuffle agencies, the President could not create any new ones unless they were to serve functions already authorized by Congress. Changes could be voted down by Congress within a 60-day limit, but if Congress disapproved, a Presidential veto of the disapproval could be overridden only by a two-thirds vote...
Freshmen in Briggs and Cabot have complained that since there were no rope fire escapes in those dormitories, they should be excused from the gruelling grind. Their objection was overridden by the fact that they might sometime visit a building where rope was the only means of escape...
...predetermined that Niemoeller's utterances are "dangerous", and there is no reason to suppose that this attitude will change during the trial. The movie, "Emile Zola" is proof enough that the welfare of the people is better served when the principles of justice are observed than when they are overridden by an autocratic government which determines by itself what is for the general good. To promote justice, not material well-being, is the highest duty of the state...
...with fresh vigor. From behind closed committee doors last week emerged the trend of the bargain he was driving. He would retain and increase all the old taxes, add a small, experimental undistributed profits tax for the gratification of Franklin Roosevelt. Cannily Chairman Harrison let himself be overridden when a majority of the committee moved to down this new tax from the 42% high set by the House to 4%. But when the majority next threatened to do away with the tax altogether, Pat Harrison tossed out a counter-threat to write a minority report, take the fight...
...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...