Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ardent Dry leanings proved a party liability in the 1930 Congressional elections. He resigned in 1932. In the Senate he has voted for: the Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1929), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), moratorium on War debts (1931), RFC (1931), Economy Act (1933), overriding the Roosevelt veto on veterans' compensation (1934), St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty (1934). He voted against: Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931. 1933), direct Federal relief for unemployed (1932, 1933), Repeal (1933), legalization of beer (1933), National Recovery Act (1933), Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), abrogating gold contracts (1934), cotton control bill (1934), raising the income...
...Continuing his campaign to end the practice of changing the service records of men dishonorably discharged by U. S. services the President imposed his ninth veto on a bill to grant an honorable discharge to Joseph G. Mclnerney who. serving in the Coast Guard in 1902. was confined in the brig, demoted from third oiler to coal heaver, and finally discharged for using insolent and mutinous language and insubordination...
Your issue of April 9 states that the Economy Act of 1933 "authorized the President to ... weed out [veterans] who were drawing compensation for injuries not even remotely connected with the War," and it then proceeds to discuss the Senate's action in overriding the President's veto on the apparent assumption that only such limited ''weeding out" had been done. Nothing could be further from the truth. Had this been the extent to which Administration action went on veterans' compensation there never would have been a back-fire in Congress, nor any public demand...
...with a band? No one could say nay to so unprecedented a patriotic gesture, but a number of Congressmen-mostly Republicans- began to snicker at its unprecedented incongruity: to welcome back the President with open arms after Congress had, in his absence, flouted his wishes by overriding his pension veto, by taxing Philippine coconut oil, by threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after a long conference with General Johnson and NRA Counsel Richberg aboard his train coming from Miami-drew into Washington's Union Station...
...Hearst Press has steadily ballyhooed the bill. Many Congressmen look upon it lovingly, sure that it would please their constituents. Therefore Speaker Rainey and Majority Leader Byrns viewed it with much alarm, believing that, given an opportunity, the House would certainly pass it, possibly repass it over a veto. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau in a lengthy criticism declared that the bill's costs ''out-weigh any benefits that the legislation could achieve...