Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Hurley deals Oath Law repeal bill death blow by veto...
...Although the time when veterans might convert their Wartime insurance from "term" to "regular" was supposed to have expired in 1927, Congress thrice extended the time for a total of ten years. Last week the President stepped in and vetoed a bill which would have extended the period a fourth time, thereby automatically bringing the conversion period to an end June 2. Promptly this week the House overrode the veto 368-10-13, the Senate...
...close all Manhattan burlesque shows (TIME, May 10), hastily passed a certain Dunnigan Bill. This would have empowered New York City's Commissioner of Licenses to close, singlehanded, any play he considered "immoral," padlock the theatre where it was shown. Mobilized public sentiment persuaded Governor Herbert Lehman to veto the bill last fortnight...
...Presented with a bill creating a commission and authorizing the appropriation of $5,000,000 for U. S. participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, Franklin Roosevelt imposed the first veto of his second term.* His reasons: the sum was too large and the proposed commission (three Cabinet members, seven Congressmen) would be given complete authority for the expenditure of public funds, "an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the Executive." Congressmen sniggered publicly at both reasons...
Their Derby almost spoiled, liquor men headed by full-faced, mustached Owsley Brown, president of Brown-Formon Distillery Co. and chairman of the Distilled Spirits Institute, penned telegrams to Governor Merriam asking veto of the measure. Joining in the protest barrage last week were the West Coast's two Governors Martin (Charles of Oregon. Clarence of Washington). At week's end California's Merriam still had the bill on his desk, called a conference of objectors to hear their views...