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...generate a good deal of professional controversy. The 1934 awards made last week at Columbia University were no exceptions. Losers made almost as much news as winners when the recommendations of special juries to pick the best novel, the best history and the best play (see p. 48), were overridden by the prize-awarding board. Only in the field of journalism did there seem to be a notable unanimity of choice. Yet no award was more astonishing than that of the $500 gold medal "for the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by an American Newspaper." Not the richest...
Before he started south, the President vetoed the bill and his veto was instantly overridden (310-to-72) by the House (TIME, April 2). Last week was the Senate's turn to be an Indian-giver. In a reasonable, sweet-tempered veto message the President had promised still further restorations of pensions to veterans for the sake of preserving his New Deal principle. Said he: "What you and I are seeking is justice and fairness. . . . It goes without saying that I shall not hesitate to make further changes if the principles of justice demand them. . . . My disapproval of this...
...could have eaten at home before he caught the train and that anyhow Congress had not appropriated money for that purpose. He has more power over Treasury expenditures than the President, must see every check that is written from 1? to $1,000,000,000. He can be overridden by no Government official. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl has been tsar of U. S. Treasury expenditures since 1921. He is responsible to Congress alone, interprets Congressional law with literal exactness. He was appointed by President Harding after he had led the Republican Party in the election...
...Bryan of Nebraska, brother of the late Great Commoner, took the Langer invitation for a text, delivered a sermon of his own on the woes of farmers. Governor Bryan dramatically declared: "The unrest in the nation is increasing. All of the anti-trust laws have been either nullified or overridden. The people are now being plundered. The prices of the farmers' products are decreasing so his throat is being cut from both ears at once. The only remedy so far in sight, as everything else tried has failed, is to increase the farmer's income by increasing...
...should be answered by facing that fact known to all, that every college is at the present a perfect reservoir of bad liquor, and that the only influence of beer would be a salutary one leading away from poor gin. There will undoubtedly be other technical difficulties to be overridden. For instance, the beer cannot nominally be handled by the University Dining Halls, but must be dispensed by the individual House Clubs; prices will have to be adjusted with the benefit of the undergraduates in view; and there will doubtless be inaugurated a Lowell House Stein. The important fact, however...