Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Harding's time onward it has been one of the chief duties of presidents to veto bonus legislation. But $3000 a head for each soldier killed or wounded in the war is not enough tribute, according to the beneficiaries, the living. "Gimme, gimme", is the unending cry of the veterans, Who for the most part never saw a German shell. "I wore a uniform, didn...
...G.A.R. was composed of a bunch of pikers. Hospitalization, vocational training, allowances for dependents, preferential selection in government service, a quarter of a billion discharge bonus at the end of the war-this was only a start. So, in 1924 they got the adjusted-service certificates over a presidential veto, later, loans on these policies, and in 1930 compensation for disabilities incurred after the war-to name only their chief gains...
...Wars have setting the difference about the method of dividing the spoils. The new promising near being exerted as Congress is more concerted, more powerful than ever before. It is no longer a question of Congress gracefully going through the motions and then pointing to a Roosevelt or Hoover veto and declaring its impotency. It is perhaps reasonable to count upon another Roosevelt veto but the question is whether one out of three of our Senators is sane, staunch, . . . and patriotic...
...energies last session in wrangling over whether Bonus cash should be raised by orthodox Treasury methods (Vinson-American Legion bill) or by printing greenbacks (Patman-Veterans of Foreign Wars bill), cash-hungry veterans saw their hopes go glimmering when the Senate by eight votes sustained President Roosevelt's veto of the Patman bill (TIME, June 3). When Legionaries roundly hissed Bonuseer Patman at their convention in St. Louis four months later, the wranglers began to see the light of compromise...
...also won Representative Patman over to their view point. But no matter which way Bonuseer Patman twists, observers agreed that with elections only a few months distant a Bonus bill satisfactory to the veterans will be rushed through Congress with enough votes to carry it over the strongest veto message President Roosevelt might compose. Speaker of the House Joe Byrns put himself on record last week as expecting the Bonus to pass both Houses by Feb. 1. Unofficial wiseacres predicted that within three months War veterans' pockets would jingle with $2,000,000.000 in cash...