Word: vetoed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigate this and other problems. The culmination of the rights-for-Presbyterian-women movement came last week at the General Council in Philadelphia. Twelve men voted for the women's emancipation, six voted against it. In St. Paul, Minn., next May the General Assembly must either ratify or veto this direct departure from Saint Paul who said "Let your women keep silence. ..." The Women. The chief Lydia Pankhursts of the Presbyterian church are two, Mrs. Fred Smith Bennett and Miss Margaret E. Hodge. Mrs. Bennett has long been a cheerful gracious opponent of "silly conventions" and she has long...
...following article on the Pocket Veto case which is at present being argued before the Supreme Court was written for the Crimson by Professor Charles Fairman A.M. '15, Lecturer on Government...
...that 68th Congress have been forgotten? It fought three mighty fights. It passed a soldier bonus bill over Mr. Coolidge's veto. It passed the Mellon tax plan, much retailored to the Democratic figure. It stirred up the greatest hornet nest of a political generation, the Harding scandals -Oil, Veterans' Bureau, Department of Justice, Prohibition Enforcement-which, inch by inch, forced Denby, then Daugherty out of the Coolidge Cabinet...
...Black Hills. 1927 started off with President Coolidge's vehement veto and denunciation of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill...
...Vetoes. Already President Coolidge's occasional troubles with Congress are fast fading from the public memory. His vetoes were not many but they were notable. Most of them were vetoes of minor bills, for the sake of dear economy, and were not overridden. The soldier bonus bill of 1924 was passed over his veto. He twice appointed Charles Beecher Warner to be Attorney-General and the Senate twice rejected the appointment. But he twice vetoed farm relief bills which called for large governmental expenditures, and Congress did not override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed...