Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President wrote his third veto. His first-of the Bursum Pension Bill -has been sustained by the Senate. His second-of the Bonus Bill-was overridden by Congress. His third-of the Postal Salary Increase Bill-was made so late that the Senate did not have time to consider it and the House did not receive it at all. His third veto, like his first two, was an "economy veto," for the purpose of keeping down Government expenditures. Besides providing increases in postal salaries, the Bill (TIME, June 9) carried a rider for publicity of campaign contributions and expenses...
...Passed the omnibus pension bill for veterans...
Said the "ad": Upon his [the Senator's] attention being called to his speech, he retorted that he would not allow anyone to dictate legislation; that he had no apology to make for voting for the Pension Bill and certainly none for the vote against the President's veto, so he voted accordingly. We are asking our friends to reread Mr. Fess's speech and then consider how a man who could make such a speech could act in such an inconsistent manner. . . . The present session of the 68th Congress is reminiscent of the story...
...meant that he had not yet read the veto message. The President's reasons were well-known. They had been expressed in his message to Congress last December; they had been reiterated in subsequent speeches and they had been embodied in large measure in the veto of the Bursum Pension Bill. The President had set his style?it was to be "the economy veto...
...Senator from the State of West Virginia, a state which breeds an eloquence as odorous as the honey of the Hybla* bees. What is more, he is a Democrat and nothing loathe to attack in the Senate the Republican President who vetoed (TIME, May 12) the Bursum pension bill: "I arise to charge the President of the United States with having become a lobbyist. As such, his activities are being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating propaganda is being delivered to Members of the Congress who have been previously feasted...