Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Bonus Bill was passed by both Houses and went to the President (TIME, May 12), the country settled down to wait?not to see what the President might do, but to hear his veto. The veto came...
John R. Quinn, Commander of the American Legion, was in Indianapolis when told that the veto had been issued. He said, without surprise: "I regret that the President has seen fit to veto the adjusted compensation measure. I am not familiar with his reasons. However, the ex-service men and women look with confidence to both Houses of Congress to enact this just measure into...
When Mr. Quinn said: "I am not familiar with his reasons," he must have meant that he had not yet read the veto message. The President's reasons were well-known. They had been expressed in his message to Congress last December; they had been reiterated in subsequent speeches and they had been embodied in large measure in the veto of the Bursum Pension Bill. The President had set his style?it was to be "the economy veto...
...although the President's reasons were foreknown, his restatement of them in the Coolidge vernacular did not lessen their force as an expression of the point of view for which he stands. Beginning his veto message, the second he had written, by rehearsing the provisions of the Bonus Bill?cash for those who would receive less than $50, 20-year endowment insurance policies for those who, by the length of their service, would receive greater amounts?he continued...
First there was War. After the War there were veterans. After the veterans there was the American Legion; after the Legion, .the bonus bill; after the bonus bill, Congress, which passed it; after Congress, the President who vetoed it; after the President-Congress again. Mr. Coolidge and the whole country have been assured by politicians -pro-bonus and anti-bonus-that the bill would be passed by this Congress whether or not the President vetoed it. Yet there remained a possibility that the Senate might not do as expected-that some Senators might reverse their votes after the President...