Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol Hill he attacked the provision with such guile and learning that even Mormon Reed Smoot was finally reduced to apoplectic silence. Result: an amendment giving suspected foreign books the benefit of court trial. In the same year he led the fight which passed, over President Hoover's veto, the Cutting-Hawes Bill for Philippine Independence. In the 1930-31 session he labored mightily to knit the disorganized Progressives into a bloc. Never sympathetic to the Hoover administration, he became its increasingly vehement critic as the Depression deepened. Early in the Depression he introduced a bill...
...Shoals (1929, 1930, 1933), Hoover Moratorium (1931), Bonus (1932, 1933, 1934), Relief (1932), 2.75% Beer (1932), Copper Tariff (1932), 3.2% Beer (1933), Repeal (1933), Roosevelt Gold Bills (1933, 1934), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934). Stock Exchange Control (1934), 16-to-1 Silver Amendment (1934)., Overriding Philippine Independence Veto...
...Deal's desires. Some questioned the efficiency but none the loyalty of Representative Rainey as stamp handler. These pointed out that he had been given a more stamp-like Congress than any Speaker in recent years and yet he had not prevented the overriding of the President's Veterans veto...
...long holder, the President settled down to await the Congressional pleasure. Forty-eight hours later that pleasure was to adjourn, after giving him more social legislation than he had asked for. The railway labor bill he might approve; Huey Long's farm mortgage moratorium bill he would probably veto (see p. 11). ¶The President took out a three-week old letter and read it to correspondents gathered around him. It was an account of some arithmetic done by George Peek, his Special Adviser on Foreign Trade. Mr. Peek had written that the U. S. ought to keep...
...President shortly afterward imposed his tenth veto on a bill to place a bronze tablet bearing a design of the Congressional Medal of Honor on the grave of Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap, U. S. M. C., in Arlington Cemetery. His objection: it established a precedent contrary to Cemetery rules and constituted a discrimination against other holders of the decoration buried at Arlington. ¶ The President signed a municipal bankruptcy bill by which bankrupt towns and cities may, with the consent of a Federal District Court and 75% of their creditors, compromise their debts to get back on their financial...