Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lobbyists also clashed with Agriculture's Henry Wallace, but biggest obstacle they had to hurdle was the White House. Franklin Roosevelt simply stated that he would veto the Sugar Bill unless Congress lopped off discriminations against Hawaii and Puerto Rico, allowed them also unrestricted refining. When the Bill reached the floor of the House, Congressman Marvin Jones, Agriculture chairman and father of the Bill, introduced a courtesy amendment to right these discriminations, but he fooled no one. Said McCormack of Massachusetts: "[Mr. Jones] is a good soldier, but he talks with his tongue in his cheek." The amendment lost...
...half-mile, sometimes also restricting passenger trains to 14 or 16 cars, have been introduced in 29 other States, always strongly backed by organized railway labor. The Legislatures of Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, California passed them. In California, however, the measure was killed by a Governor's veto; in the other States the laws were found unconstitutional by Federal courts...
...Senate: ¶ Killed the President's proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court by returning it to committee, by vote of 70 to 20 (see p. 11 ). ¶ Overrode the President's veto of a bill 1) to continue for one year the reduced 3-2% interest rate on loans made to farmers by Federal land banks, and 2) to postpone the restoration to original levels of interest on farm mortgages held by the Government. With every Republican except Senator Vandenberg, and even such economizers as Senator Glass voting for the bill, the President's veto, already overidden...
...colleagues voted to buy it for the college. When Dr. Dennett protested that he had no use for the building and needed the money elsewhere, the trustees offered to put up all but $7,000 of the $42,000 purchase price. Dr. Dennett thereupon asked for a "suspensory veto" on financial proposals. When the trustees refused, he resigned...
...soft speech at the hearing Mayor Wilson permitted the City Council to withdraw the ordinance, promised to veto it if it were ever submitted to him again. This apparently unqualified defeat was not so complete as it appeared. The Council had arranged a compromise whereby the insurance companies will accept a 2% tax on all premiums paid by policyholders living in Philadelphia. Penn Mutual will thereby pay about $100,000 annually. To the mayor this week was to go the honor of announcing this agreement...