Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yoakum detests politics in business not for business. Last May, he urged President Coolidge to veto the McNary-Haugen bill. Later, he telegraphed the President his approval of the veto. When Senator Fess talked on farming at the Republican Convention, he used many of Mr. Yoakum's most comprehensive phrases. Senator Borah used the Yoakum farm figures. When Nebraska's governor, plump Adam McMullen, repudiated his own "farmers crusade" last June, it was after he had received a telegram from Mr. Yoakum...
...adjournment Congress has taken. If it is a thoroughgoing adjournment in the Constitutional sense of the word, then the bill is dead. But if it could be shown that the adjournment is merely ad interim, between sessions of the Seventieth Congress, then perhaps the President's failure to veto will have allowed the bill to become law. On this point the Constitution simply says...
...Senator Norris insists, the Supreme Court may have a nice stickler before it, though there is a precedent in the U. S. Court of Claims which would uphold the Muscle Shoals "pocket veto...
...signed remained the Muscle Shoals Bill, to put the U. S. in the nitrate and power business with its Wartime plant on the Tennessee River in Alabama. A "pocket veto" was urged, feared, hoped, predicted for this measure which the Congress took a decade to pass...
Indianapolis, Ind., a town of much political consciousness and confusion, was committed to Daylight Saving Time by its City Council. Its mayor then vetoed the ordinance. But last week the City Council overrode the veto, six votes to three. Effective in the repassage was Novelist-Councilman Meredith Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men, Otherwise Phyllis, etc., etc.), now serving his first term. Mr. Nicholson reported that he had received a telegram from Will H. Hays, cinema tsar, declaring that "the movies" would be ruined in Indianapolis if clocks were put ahead one hour...