Word: veto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beset with rumors that President Roosevelt would not seriously object if his proposed veto of the Patman "Green-back" Bill were over-ridden by the Senate, those Congressmen who would make political wampum of the bonus question are left straddling the proverbial fence. In view of recent developments in Washington their confusion can well be appreciated. Vice-president Garner, and others close to the President, are reported to be in favor of the bonus bill. Mr. Garner has expressed the opinion that currency inflation--which the Pat-man Bill would effect--would at this time be advantageous to the country...
Last week President Roosevelt summoned Senate leaders to the White House, chided them hot-temperedly on the Senate's delay, reiterated his demand for a two-year extension of NRA. But he also declared, surprisingly, that he "could not" veto a ten month extension as proposed by Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark. The Senators marched back to the Capitol, where next day five of them joined other Finance Committee members in approving by 16-to-4 a redraft of the Clark resolution. In effect it offered an emasculated Blue Eagle less than ten months to flutter...
...Billman '35; and Theodore C. Uebel 1G have hurled a gauntlet of defiance at Lousiana's Kingfish. Determined to undermine the pressure brought to bear by The Washroom Senator in his recent address supporting the Patman Bonus Bill, the Ten Thousand despatched a telegram to the President urging his veto. At a late hour last night the Harvard Host, all owning allegiance to Eliot House, had received no answer to their communication. Der Kingfish could not be reached for a statement...
...Colonel Walery Slawek, spur-clinking Premier and close crony of the Marshal. Last week Colonel Slawek was hailed as "Father of the Polish Constitution." As a bow to Democracy it retains Poland's democratically elected Chamber but strips it of power by giving the President an absolute veto. The Senate is replaced by "The Assembly of Elders," one-third appointed by the President, the other two-thirds by Poland's new official Elite, namely males who have won either of two war decorations, the Virtuti Militari Order or the Independence Cross. The President can dissolve both the Chamber...
...House had already passed the Patman Bill providing for immediate payment in greenbacks of the Bonus due in 1945 (TIME, Jan. 21). What lay ahead was well known: Passage of a cash Bonus bill; a Presidential veto; an overriding of the veto by the House; a nip & tuck contest in the Senate in which the veto would probably be sustained on condition the President accept a compromise...