Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made the announcement that he is informed by checkers-up employed by the American Legion that 68, or over two-thirds, of the Senate are in favor of bonus legislation. If this statement is true, it would be possible to pass a bonus bill over the President's veto, with a margin of four votes. Mr. Johnson did not state, however, what new friends had been found for the bonus since the Senate upheld President Harding's veto of the bill in the last Congress. The advocates of bonus legislation do not intend in the new bill...
...JERSEY: Governor Silzer is a lone Democrat faced by a Legislature of Republicans. He is called the "veto-governor" because of the large number of bills which he vetoed during the last session of the Legislature. Now a collection of his vetoes has been published. They are marked by plain speaking and a clear legal mind, and Democrats claim that, although 27 bills became law despite his objection, this collection of vetoes shows that he won a " moral victory...
...JERSEY: While the 147th Legislature in its closing hours was passing 27 bills over the veto of Governor Silzer, a storm tore off a section of the State House roof and blew in the plate glass windows of the Senate gallery. Governor Silzer's only comment on the last work of the legislators was: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow. If they stayed they could not do any more good, and if they leave they cannot do any more harm...
...Stock Exchange list, the latter authority also remarks, "Necessary discipline of the kind always suggests the query, exactly how such exigencies would be met, with Stock Exchange procedure either dictated by a political bureau on the Lockwood Committee's plan, or subject to that bureau's veto." Incidentally, the Lockwood bills here referred to, for the incorporation of the Stock Exchange and the licensing of stock brokers, perished by an overwhelming vote in the New York State Assembly last week...
...super-state,--a sont of international octopus busily engaged with its many writhing tentacles in sucking away the national independence of nations. Nothing could be farther from the fact, for the Council must agree unanimously on all important questions of policy, and thus a single national veto can prevent the League from pursuing a course of which that nation disapproves. The organs of the League constitute simply the political machinery by which the nations of the world may consult and act together in committee, when they so desire,--and nothing more...