Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, if I were President, and I should find the Treasury menaced by an unjust obligation of $4,000,000,000, such as the soldiers' bonus, and I could not summon enough votes from my party to sustain my veto, I would resign...
...before the jet black tomb of Lenin to take the "pledge of Leninism" or, in other words, to promise to support the dead Russian leader's principles. MM. Rykov, Trotzky, Kamenev, Bukharin?all Bolshecrats?spoke to the children. When War Lord Trotzky asked them if they were ready to sustain the doctrines, they replied: "We are always ready...
...veto. The House. The first attempt to pass the bill over the veto was made in the House. In part it justified the belief that the bill would be easily, passed over the veto. In part it added to the hopes of those who wanted the Senate to sustain the veto. With the veto only two days old, the House stood up and voted. A two-thirds vote was necessary to override the President. The totals showed: For Bonus Against Bonus Against Veto For Veto...
Luscious verbiage, hanging from heavily laden political boughs, began to fall into the inviting laps of stalwart citizens. The harvest season of election was not yet at hand, but the overburdened limb of speech no longer could sustain its fruit...
Expressing "absolute confidence" in the resources of France and the intelligence and industry of its people, Mr. Morgan declared: "If the ruling classes only make a similar effort, France soon will be invincible in the economic domain. In any case, we shall always be at her side, and sustain her when necessary." Mr. Morgan evidently understands the French psychology very well; said he: "It is quite understood that Germany must pay you." He went on to state that nothing in the French situation prior to the fall of the franc justified a panic; that in fact France's national...