Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President will be elected for six years and will not be eligible to succeed himself. Salary: $15,000. He has power to veto not only whole bills but any item in an appropriation, revenue or tariff bill. The Legislature cannot, with two minor exceptions, appropriate more money than he asks for in his budget. The Vice President may serve in his Cabinet and Cabinet members may address the Legislature...
...vote of 53 to 16 it passed a bill repealing the publicity section of the income tax law passed by the last Congress. This means that the millions of pink slips field with the income tax returns never will be made public, barring a veto by President Roosevelt
Through his spokesman, Sonator Robinson, President Roosevelt, stated that he would veto either the Patman or Vinson bonus bill, should one of them pass Congress. The news is thankfully received by all thoughtful people in the country, for passage of one of the other appears certain. Many people feel that President Roosevelt should explain his attitude and muster public opinion solidly behind...
Aside from the danger to a none too firm credit position, the veto could and should be invoked on moral and social grounds. No group has ever been so favored and pampered as the bloc of veterans and pseudo-veterans. Some historians say that the present liberality, graft, and falsification makes post Civil War governments look like pikers. The government is now spending an average of nearly three thousand dollars for each soldier killed or wounded in action--compared to less than 25 dollars in any wartime nation. Courageous leadership is absolutely necessary if the nation is to be saved...
...full House choose between the Vinson and Patman Bills. That vote and a vote on the measure chosen were scheduled for this week. The House seemed certain to pass one measure or the other. That the Senate would follow suit and the President would veto seemed equally certain...