Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swelled up. I have just read three newspapers and also heard the ''Voice of the United States News" over the National Farm and Home Hour, all commenting on the overriding of the President's veto of the "Veterans Bill." Practically no notice is taken of the fact that this was 40% Veterans and 60 % Political Jobholders Bill. Incidentally, the gentlemen who voted to override the veto raised their own wages $1,000 per. The other $500 will come later. I understand that Senator Borah offered an amendment to cut out all salaries over...
...Independent Offices bill carried $103,000,000 extra-Budget funds for veterans, $125,000,000 for Federal employes. In the House, 209 Democrats and 97 Republicans voted to override the President's veto. The following Senators so voted...
...cheers and a hip, hip, hooray. Our numbers would be ample to throw the fear of God into a considerable body of chicken-livered Congressmen who become panicky at the mere mention of veterans' votes. The disgusting spectacle of a lobby so powerful that it can override the veto of even President Roosevelt is a thing calculated to incite some kind of action on the part of every right-thinking American. Why does not TIME, who has launched such an excellent exposure of the armaments racket (which exposure, by the way, I think should be reprinted and broadcast over...
...bonus legislation and the simultaneous Phillipine legislation should be considered along side of it. For these three acts of Congress, considered in relation to one another, illustrate the startling level of weakness into which this body, so vital to democracy has returned. The bonus legislation over the President's veto has been branded as cowardly by most of the reputable newspapers in the country. The present tax levy is, of course, the direct result of this lobbied legislation; and the adoption of the Finance Committee's Phillipine amendment, which is at best a violation of faith, is the direct result...
...expense of the naughty boys of the opposition whose "welcome dear teacher" rang somewhat false after their participation in the nasty little pranks which were engineered during his absence. Some of the apostates may reflect perhaps that the President would have preferred the triumph of his bonus veto and the defeat of the Philippine oil tax bill to the Marine Band and the welcoming delegation as an expression of Congressional good feeling...