Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national] debt is but little short of criminal." Last week it was widely noted that Senator Steiwer had voted for NRA. for AAA and the AAAmendments, had led the Senate fight against President Roosevelt's Economy Act of 1933, had twice voted to override the President's veto of the Bonus...
...force. In the latter case, the new Constitution provides such increased outlets for Indian discontent as provincial cabinets and provincial legislatures elected by 14% of the native adult population. Viceroy Linlithgow retains such absolute powers as the right to overrule single-handed his own executive council and to veto laws passed by the Indian Legislature if he chooses to think they "affect the safety or tranquillity of British India...
...noble of Mr. Philips to remind TIME Inc. that it "would be performing a real public service" if it "would refuse to stoop again to such profit-taking." He must have overlooked that very nifty bit of American Legion profit-taking achieved this year over a Presidential veto in Washington. For that superpatriotic boosting of the national debt, the Legion makes all of us, as taxpayers, even greater "suckers...
...governors (now presidents) named by the local directors of each Reserve Bank. Last year when the New Deal architects remodeled the Federal Reserve System into what for all practical purposes is a central bank of issue under political control, the reconstituted Reserve Board was given the power to veto the choices of the twelve Reserve Banks for both presidents and first vice presidents...
More striking were Franklin Roosevelt's gestures to those who have grown alarmed by mounting Government deficits and recalled his 1932 promise to balance the budget. First was a veto which he imposed on a bill for $50,000,000 for seed & crop loans to farmers. Calling attention to the fact that the sum was not provided for in his budget, he declared that any money used for that purpose should properly come out of relief funds. Congressional pain at the veto was considerably alleviated when a few days later he allocated $30,000,000 from relief funds...