Word: repassing
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...Permission is granted to Mr. Ryerson, with his negro man, Dick, to pass and repass the picket at Ramapo. Go. Washington...
...been voted on. The Hearst Press has steadily ballyhooed the bill. Many Congressmen look upon it lovingly, sure that it would please their constituents. Therefore Speaker Rainey and Majority Leader Byrns viewed it with much alarm, believing that, given an opportunity, the House would certainly pass it, possibly repass it over a veto. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau in a lengthy criticism declared that the bill's costs ''out-weigh any benefits that the legislation could achieve...
...President Hoover gets the measure before the last ten days of the session, he must either disapprove it and thereby allow Congress a chance to repass it over his veto or permit it to become a law automatically. If the measure reaches the White House after the last ten days period, the President can kill it by doing nothing to it (i.e a pocket veto) and thus deprive Congress of a second vote before final adjournment. With the ten-day period beginning Feb. 21, the Bonus fight became chiefly a race against time to the White House...
...third-party candidate for President in 1924 the elder La Follette advocated constitutional changes which would make 5-to-4 Supreme Court innocuous, would permit Congress to repass laws declared unconstitutional...
...hastened back to Hartford by airplane to "straighten out this mess." As he stepped out of the plane, he asked: "What's the matter? As soon as I get out of the state, you boys start raising hell." Promptly he summoned a special session of the legislature to repass en masse all the legislation voided by the court...