Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus he is a very useful helper to the New Deal. When he dropped a hint, to Franklin Roosevelt's annoyance, that Congressmen would be doing the President a favor if they passed the Bonus over his veto, there is little doubt that he was trying to be politically helpful by killing the Bonus issue before the next election...
...looked indeed as if he would get most of his legislative program from Congress but everything was not rosy. His proposal to extend NRA for two years seemed about to take a licking (see p. 16). He had on paper only a bare margin to prevent passage over his veto of the Bonus Bill which would dump $2,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks on the nation. He had the problem of roundly rejustifying his whole program of lavish expenditure-in order to justify excluding the Bonus...
...Franklin Roosevelt not only looked as if he did not mind. He showed it. To farmers who "invaded" the Capital demanding more AAA (see p. 16), he made a rip-snorting speech. To rumors that he was going to wobble on his Bonus veto, he replied with a flat announcement that his veto would be as strong as he could make it. And two days later he electrified his press conference by abruptly grinding out a cigaret and saying he would not send a Bonus veto message. He would go to the Capitol and deliver it in person -the first...
...Joined the House in sending the Patman Bonus bill to the President for a certain veto...
Reports from Washington indicate that the President's veto of the Patman Bill will probably be upheld by the Senate. But the bonus champions indicate they have just begun to fight. If the Patman measure does fail, other bonus bills will be waiting to be rushed through--this time as a "rider" attached to one of the administration's pet appropriation measures. These new bills, it is rumored, would give the Precident greater freedom in choosing means of raising the two billion dollars. He would be allowed to draw from the four billion relief fund, or borrow the necessary cash...