Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore return the bill without my approval."-Calvin Coolidge. The bill had been passed by the Philippine legislature and repassed by a two-thirds majority over Governor General Leonard Wood's veto. It proposed to hold a plebiscite among the islanders on the question: "Do you desire the immediate, absolute and complete independence of the Philippine Islands?" Under the organic law of the territory, the President of the U. S. has final authority on all bills passed by the native legislature. Hence, there will be no plebiscite and independence in the Philippines is still a remote subject...
...Republican National Committeeman Charles Dewey Hilles returned from the Middle West last week and announced that here and there but not everywhere the farmers resent the veto of the McNary-Haugen bill...
...pocket veto" (failure to act on a bill ten days after receiving it, Congress having ad-journed), the President killed a bill to increase the pensions of Civil War widows, over 75 years of age, from $30 to $40 a month...
...Senate received last week a document (nearly 11,000 words*) concluding with these words and signed with the big C-flourish of the signature: Calvin Coolidge. It was his expected veto of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill...
...veto message was not a masterpiece of style, organization or logic. It was repetitious. But it was also devastating. Many a disinterested person who was obliged to read it admitted he was ready to quit midway and concede the debate to the President. There was, however, one sharp aphorism reminiscent of the Coolidge first known to fame. It was: "Government price fixing, once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared...