Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hefty Commander Murphy refused to tell newshawks what he and Legion Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor had heard from the President's lips. Significantly, however, he declared: "We are not even discussing the possibility of a veto...
...President Roosevelt had become so vehement that New Dealers felt obliged to have Democratic Press-agent Charles Michelson observe in his weekly propaganda letter: "It just happens that the day the potato program was tacked on the AAAmendments, Despot Roosevelt was not despoting. . . . Fortunately, or unfortunately, the President cannot veto part of a bill. He has got to accept or reject the whole thing and they [potato sponsors] reasoned logically that he would rather take the potato than destroy the whole measure asked...
...Fourteen veto messages skimmed from the Squire's pen denying special favors to old soldiers, Indians and others for whom the late Congress showed a weakness...
...sometimes three ceremonies a day took place last week in the White House office. While proud Congressional parents stood at his elbow, the President baptized bill after bill with "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Not one important bill left by Congress did he veto. Proudest signing of the week was that of the Guffey Coal Bill attended by a host of Congressional godfathers, watched over by John L. Lewis and other officers of the United Mine Workers and followed at once by 1) steps to call off the coal strike scheduled for Sept. 24 and 2) a suit filed by Carter Coal...
Last month practically every Alabama newspaper including the Eagle was calling on jolly Governor Bibb Graves to veto an antisedition bill, just passed by the Legislature, making it a misdemeanor to advocate the overthrow of the government by violence or to own more than one copy of a publication doing so.* The newspaper howls turned to cheers when Governor Graves finally vetoed the bill. Last fortnight the cheers turned back to howls when it appeared that the Governor had waited one day too long to veto the bill which had automatically become the law of Alabama. Other Alabama editors just...