Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes before promptly plopped against it. The Patman Bill won, 52-10-35, because an unpremeditated combination swung to its support. To the inflationists' assistance sprang ten Administration stalwarts headed by Senators Robinson and Harrison-whose object was to pass a Bonus Bill against which a veto could be made to stick...
...Zandt of the VFW left the gallery in triumph and proclaimed a "decisive victory." But it was decisive only as a victory of the VFW over the American Legion. Senator Robinson and his Administration friends were left, grinning, in possession of the field, sure that the President's veto could now be upheld. Hastily Senator Thomas began a new maneuver to save the Patman Bill from doom. He moved to reconsider the measure, thereby postponing its delivery to the White House where Franklin Roosevelt was itching to veto...
...time thus gained veterans were to put pressure on the President to sign the bill, on Senators to gain the necessary votes to override a veto. Commander Van Zandt asked "a million Americans''* to demand the Patman Bill's final enactment. Commander Belgrano, beaten but wishing to retire from the field with the honors of war, called on Legionaries for similar demonstrations. Telegrams at the rate of 250 an hour flooded Washington, 15,000 were delivered at the White House one day. And Father Coughlin who takes credit for having defeated the World Court, tried his influence...
...Patman Bonus bill, which President Roosevelt was in good faith bound to veto. Priest Coughlin predicted: "It would be political suicide for the President to veto the Patman bill. He is too clever a politician for that. If he does veto it-." The priest shrugged a disclaimer for the President's fate in that event...
...Poland's famed Colonels' Clique suddenly brought forward the new Constitution on which they had been working for five years and had it formally signed. Thus last week gentle President Moscicki, a brilliant scientist but an uncertain politician, found himself with enormous paper powers. He has absolute veto over Parliament, he can take command of the Army and Navy, and dismiss Parliament by decree...