Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excluded from the U. S.; 4) after the seventh year U. S. tariffs would be gradually stepped up on Philippine exports. The House bill provides independence after eight years' probation. The Senate debate was trivial, shallow, time-killing, few members believing the bill would escape a Presidential veto. Farm lobbyists, eager to put Philippine sugar and vegetable oils outside the U. S. tariff wall, operated from Senator Capper's committee room just off the Senate lobby...
...Union and 33 other farm organizations, after a three-day Washington meeting, united solidly for Domestic Allotment. President-elect Roosevelt sent Henry Morgenthau Jr., son of the onetime Ambassador to Turkey, to the Capital as his personal agent. If the Jones bill, amended, passes the present Congress, a Hoover veto is viewed as a certainty. Thereupon Domestic Allotment will become the first business of a special session of the new Democratic Congress. In 1926 the Department of Agriculture's late Dr. William Jasker Spillman first seriously proposed Domestic Allotment. Professor Milburn L. Wilson of the Montana State College...
...nine months free to get squared away in the White House and his new job. But so large is his "new deal," so insistent is the popular pressure to transform it into legislation, so dawdling is every "lame duck" session and so determined is President Hoover to use his veto on Democratic ideas with which he disagrees that a special session next April is widely viewed as a certainty. 73rd Speakership- Such a prospect gives added importance to the present House session where already a heated Democratic campaign is in progress for the Speakership of the 73rd Congress. The wise...
...archbishops, bishops and lords of appeal. Half the remaining 300 would be elected by the present hereditary peers and the other half would be "qualified persons," possibly nominated by the Prime Minister or elected by county and borough councils; 2) the new House of Lords would have power to veto legislation passed by a given House of Commons and this veto could only be overruled by the vote of a subsequently elected House of Commons...
...practical approach to democratic Socialism in the world. Railroads, posts, telegraphs, belong to the State, public utilities are closely supervised. There is universal military training, though citizens only serve two weeks a year after their first two months' training (three months for the cavalry). Citizens can and frequently do veto unpopular laws passed by the Federal Assembly by direct referendum. Inherited wealth is heavily taxed in most cantons. The President has very limited powers, serves for one year only...