Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inference is drawn that Governor Green night have members of the Board of Regents of the University replaced to bring about a condition more favorable to his ideas. So far as is the prerogative of the Governor of Michigan concerned, his power lies in the veto of appropriation bills or in limitations by the Administrative Board, which allocates funds in accordance with the condition of the State Treasury...
...Grundy is a man who raised $700,000 to elect Mr. Coolidge in 1924; who raised $615,000 in 1926 to elect a governor* of Pennsylvania who would veto a corporation stock tax; who raised $547,000 to elect Mr. Hoover in 1928. Mr. Grundy is a worsted maker of Bristol, Pa., and president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Grundy is the man who has gone down to Washington about every tariff bill since the Dingley Bill of 1897. Who knows better than Mr. Grundy why the Pennsylvania delegation in the House caucused unanimously for a special session...
...Republi cans, it was altered slightly, passed and sent to the House of Representatives for concurrence. The Administration (i.e., President Coolidge and Regular Republicans) controls the House, and it was promptly stated that the House would throw out the Harris amendment. Or, if it did not, the President would veto it. How now? Is the Administration...
...yearly appropriations for the university. Many a pessimistic citizen envisaged the legislature, outraged, refusing its usual generous allowance to the state's education. And in 1927 when Dr. Little asked $4,925,000 for lands and buildings the legislature granted him only $3,950,000 which by Governor's veto was promptly cut down...
...Pennsylvania, the Administration's spokesman, offered an amendment making private development of the power phase mandatory. The amendment was beaten, 53 to 24. Senator Borah offered an amendment making power development by the Government mandatory, but Senator Johnson persuaded him to withdraw it because it would invite a veto. The Senate finally left the matter optional with the Secretary of the Interior...