Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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INDIANA: Governor McCray announced that he would pocket-veto a bill passed by the Assembly, providing a bonus of $10 for each month of service for veterans of the World War or the war with Spain...
...bonus for world war veterans is forecast for next year. The late bill providing an adjusted compensation had not sufficient support to go over Mr. Harding's veto. But the new Congress is expected to have the two-thirds majority required in favor of the bill...
...President stands by his word that he will veto any bonus not based on a sales...
More and more the campaign centers in a discussion of economy which has been caught up in characteristic newspaper fashion as "The One Big Issue". Following President Harding's veto of the bonus comes the statement concerning finances by Under Secretary of the Treasury Gilbert. While additional taxes will spell disaster, he says in effect, there is no alternative if there is persistence in any program of expenditures beyond the limits of the Government's income...
...teaching and administrative staff. The Board of Overseers, on the other hand, is a group of thirty-two men, including the President and Treasurer and thirty other men elected by the graduates. It meets less frequently than the Corporation (usually eight or ten times a year), has a veto power on the more important acts and appointments of the Corporation, and serves in general as a supervisory body...