Word: vetoed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some 5,500,000 soldiers, sailors & marines who served the U. S. at home or abroad in the War, were voted an honorarium by Congress three years ago, over the veto of President Coolidge. Some 3,100,000 of the soldiers - or their relicts or dependents-have collected this "bonus," as it was called in the press, this World War Adjusted Compensation, as it was called in the Act. Some 40,000 soldiers filled out their applications incorrectly, got them back again, and have since failed to return corrected applications to the Adjutant General's Office. Some...
...offer him the deanship but the municipal College of the City of Detroit through the Board of Education did. Before Dr. Hatton declined, Mayor John W. Smith of Detroit, wanting no staunch advocate of the city manager system on the city payrolls, vigorously assailed the appointment and threatened to veto it. HAROLD E. ROE Detroit, Mich...
...lack of confidence in him. Had they succeeded in winning the motion, it would doubtless have done them no good; for Dictators have an irritating habit of putting themselves above the law. Still, it would have done Pilsudski small good had he been forced to ride roughshod over their veto. To avoid all such unpleasantness, he issued a decree closing the Sejm...
...champion all four-except Mayor Thompson. From this circumstance some saw in his crusade a flourish preliminary to tossing the Thomp- son hat into the presidential ring. Despite President Coolidge's adamant refusal to call a special session of Congress to deal with the flood emergency and his veto of the McNary-Haugen Bill (farm relief). Mayor Thompson hailed him as one of the greatest friends of the Mississippi Valley in the White House. Of onetime Governor Lowden he said: "There's a man who says he wants to be President. He does not state any principles...
...some central in-stitution?the Federal Reserve Board. The compromise: the boards of directors of each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks were to submit to the Federal Reserve Board at Washington for approval, a rediscount rate for their particular region. The Board was presumed able only to veto, not to initiate rates. By refusing to approve a rate offered by a regional bank, it could make that bank unable to function. The Board had practically full power...