Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerks to carry back to Congress. Of these vetoes only 49 have been overridden by a cantankerous House & Senate.* Last week President Roosevelt tossed the custom of the country out the window and made a breezy bit of history by carrying Veto No. 675 up to the Capitol in person and making it stick. Whereas all other Presidents have been content to let Congressional clerks read out their objections to bad measures, nothing less than the rostrum of the House of Representatives would serve him as an eminence from which to thunder his disapproval of the Patman Bill to prepay...
Reasons in Person."Mr. Speaker, Members of the House of Representatives. . . . Under the Constitution, I address this message to the House of Representatives, but at the same time I am glad that the Senate by coming here in joint session gives me opportunity to give my reasons in person to the other house of the Congress. . . . With your permission, I should like to continue from time to time to act as my own messenger...
Printing Press Money "The first person injured by sky-rocketing prices is the man on a fixed income. Every disabled veteran on pension or allowance is on fixed income. This bill favors the able-bodied veteran at the expense of the disabled veteran. . . . Every country that has attempted the form of meeting its obligations which is here provided has suffered disastrous consequences. In the majority of cases printing press money has not been retired through taxation. Because of increased costs, caused by inflated prices, new issue has followed new issue, ending in the ultimate wiping out of the currency...
...Brown Shirts. In the old Imperial Army the War Ministry was a purely administrative post. Not so that of Kriegsminister von Blomberg. Last week's law made him the actual commander of all Germany's armed forces, responsible only to Der Führer in person. Under him and observing his orders will be General Werner von Fritsch of the Army, Admiral Erich Rader of the Navy, and rambunctious General Hermann Wilhelm Goring of the Military Air Corps...
...Erich M. Schliakjer will have charge of the group, which will leave Harvard between June 16 and 23, the party expects to return to Cambridge by September 15. Total expenses for the expedition will run to about $400 per person...