Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richman Vincent Astor provided the yacht which carried the Man of the Year to sea, fishing for bonefish and barracuda off the Bahama Keys while Congress was overriding his veto of veterans' pension increases...
...Viceroy and British provincial governors "emergency powers" to do whatever they like in whatever His Majesty's Government wisely deems an emergency. In one of the noblest passages in last week's great state paper, the Linlithgow Report advises that the Viceroy be empowered to veto any tariff measures which Indians may advance "only if, in his opinion, the intention of the policy contemplated is to subject trade between the United Kingdom and India to restrictions conceived not in the interests of India but with the object of injuring the interests of the United Kingdom...
...mightiest display of Presidential power in recent years. At one stroke he forced Congress to cut veterans' pensions by $300,000,000, to cut the pay of all Government employes 15%. But Congress would not remain permanently cowed. When it met again last spring it restored over Presidential veto not only a good part of the pension cuts, but one-third of the employes' pay cut as of Feb. 15, 1934, and another third as of July 1. The President was empowered to restore the other third when living costs had increased sufficiently...
...Bonus Act of 1924, the Government assumed obligations to War veterans which now amount to $3,486,000,000 worth of endowment policies payable in full in 20 years. Over President Hoover's veto in 1931, the veterans won the right to borrow up to 50% of the face value of their policies-at 3½% interest per annum. Only 15% of the veterans failed to take advantage of the offer and some $1,689,915,531 was paid out to them as "loans." The Government has made no serious effort to spur beneficiaries into paying their interest, much...
...Washington, President Roosevelt, like Coolidge and Hoover before him, was all cocked and primed to veto any Bonus legislation a politically-minded Congress might dare to send...