Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McNary wished, the House might consent to a joint conference to arrange the differences or it might, as seemed probable, reject the Haugen bill just as it was rejected before. If by any chance the House should accept the Haugen bill, it was reasonably certain that the President would veto it. The most the proponents of the bill could really hope for was a greatly modified compromise-a sort of patchwork bill as a sop for the farmers...
...showdown between Spain and Brazil, on the one hand, and the Council of the League of Nations, on the other, has impended since the Spanish and Brazilian governments instructed their representatives on the Council to veto the admission of Germany to a permanent Council seat (TIME, March 29) unless there were simultaneously accorded to Spain and Brazil permanent instead of temporary seats...
...effect of these developments was virtually to quash the possibility that a Spanish or Brazilian veto might again cause trouble when the League Assembly meets to induct Germany next September...
...President last week exercised his first veto on any bill passed by the present Congress - a bill directing him to reappoint one Captain Chester A. Roth well, who was discharged from the Engineering Corps of the Army because twelve Generals on an Efficiency Board had found that the Captain was "lacking in attention to duty, initiative and administrative ability, careless, indifferent and failing to take advantage of his opportunities for employment." The President decided to uphold the Efficiency Board, since he had no reason for reversing...
...What kind of bill was killed by the President's first veto at this session of Congress...