Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amendment to the Constitution permitting the President of the United States to veto specific items of an appropriation bill...
...ratified afterward on the floor . . . Once more pure democracy, or the form of pure democracy, which always is the cloak for some sort of oligarchy, had been replaced by representative government where the oligarchy could frankly function in the open with the body of electors reserving the right to veto its decision...
...giving bonuses for Veterans of the World War, most of it in insurance. (Passed over the President's veto...
...bill increasing the pensions of all veterans of wars from 1812 to 1902. (Defeated in the Senate in an attempt to pass it over the President's veto...
...bill to increase salaries of Post Office employes and to provide for publicity of campaign contributions. (Failed to come up in the Senate after veto by the President...