Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little but good news had Franklin Roosevelt ever had from the political surveys of FORTUNE, whose poll last autumn indicated his re-election with an error of only about 1% in the popular vote, whose poll in April indicated that 52.6% of the people favored a third term for him. Last week, FORTUNE'S June issue carried a special supplement giving a preview of its July poll on the President's popularity as affected by the Supreme Court issue. This showed a bigger change in his popularity than took place at any time during the campaign. Whereas...
...Presented with a bill creating a commission and authorizing the appropriation of $5,000,000 for U. S. participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, Franklin Roosevelt imposed the first veto of his second term.* His reasons: the sum was too large and the proposed commission (three Cabinet members, seven Congressmen) would be given complete authority for the expenditure of public funds, "an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the Executive." Congressmen sniggered publicly at both reasons...
...first term he vetoed 221 bills. This made him runner-up to Grover Cleveland who imposed 312 vetoes in his first term, 163 vetoes in his second...
...minutes, handed him a copy of the letter, told him it could be released as soon as the original had reached the White House. Newshawk Suter's eyes popped. The letter announced Mr. Van Devanter's retirement on June 2 (day after the Supreme Court completes its term). As a parting kindness one oldster was giving another oldster a scoop...
Three More Blows. If the President's aim was to get conservative oldsters off the Court, the Van Devanter retirement was a partial success, but there were reasons for believing that his chit from the Justice gave a sour taste to his breakfast. Every President in his second term finds it difficult to control Congress, and by forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown...