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From the criminals' lexicon comes this saw: You can always buy an alibi. Whether bought or not, simple alibis twice in a month have overridden masses of condemning evidence gathered by the State of New York...
...when in Lafayette in a colonial- type tree-shaded mansion. He owns no automobile. His one diversion: watching baseball games. He is outside Washington's smart society. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: an oratorical genius, an eccentric, no great legislator. An oldtime politician whose personal magnetism has overridden his legislative deficiencies, brought him, colorful, to a drab modern Congress. He bolted, bated Democratic supporters of Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, stumped for President Hoover, but did not vote for him. This year regular Alabama Democrats barred him from their primary. "Jeffersonian (anti-Smith) Democrats" nomi- nated...
Vetoes. Already President Coolidge's occasional troubles with Congress are fast fading from the public memory. His vetoes were not many but they were notable. Most of them were vetoes of minor bills, for the sake of dear economy, and were not overridden. The soldier bonus bill of 1924 was passed over his veto. He twice appointed Charles Beecher Warner to be Attorney-General and the Senate twice rejected the appointment. But he twice vetoed farm relief bills which called for large governmental expenditures, and Congress did not override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed...
While citizens wondered whether Justice Bailey was a discriminating jurist or a quibbling dolt, and whether U. S. Senators are efficient investigators or clumsy persecutors, Col. Stewart packed out homewards to Chicago, scot-free at last of the Oil Scandals unless the Senate gets the Bailey theory of quorums overridden in the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Repassed over the President's veto, 245 to 101, the Senate's retirement-pay bill for volunteer War officers. The Senate having overridden the veto, the bill becomes...