Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promised rising revenues, falling expenditures, dwindling deficits. While his budget message was being read, the Supreme Court handed down its AAA decision depriving the Government of $547,000,000 annually in processing taxes. Within three weeks Congress authorized a Bonus expenditure of $2,250,000,000 over his unemphatic veto. Franklin Roosevelt therefore faced the probability of a Federal deficit exceeding any other of Depression...
...office had, however, come to talk not of balls but of taxes. Although it was less than a month since the President told Congress that no new taxes would be needed this year, he had two reasons for changing his mind: 1) the Bonus had been passed over his veto; 2) the Supreme Court had found AAA's processing taxes unconstitutional. One boosted the Treasury's outgo; the other cut the Treasury's income. The result of the President's office birthday party reached the Press in driblets from three sources. Attorney General Cummings said...
...second time in his Administration President Roosevelt vetoed a Bonus bill. For the first time both the House and Senate overrode his veto...
...contempt for balanced budgets, and a non-chalance about a few billions more added to the public debt. Yet last year the President, in one of his few truly statesmenlike messages, rallied the opponents of the bonus raid to his side and preserved enough congressional discipline to sustain his veto. Even then his career was sadly reminiscent of the parable concerning a rake's progress. This year's veto was, by contrast, innocuous and no attempt was made to hold Congress in line by applying pressure. In this rare case when he had once shown intestinal fortitude...
...tyrannical over-lords, to demand, and receive, great portions of the nation's substance. But when Congress kowtows to orders from bonus headquarters, the public should at least be spared the hypocritical mouthings of one senator whose conscience, said he, impelled him to vote for overriding the veto...