Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusive defeat of the repeal bill yesterday was the fourth of a series of reversals for opposition forces of the oath. Two years ago the law narrowly escaped erasure from the books when, after passing in both the House and the Senate, it met the veto of Governor Hurley...
Last week Mr. Elliott fired a gun big enough to be heard by Franklin Roosevelt. He announced his decision to veto $3,050,000 in loans promised by Farm Security Administration to five cooperatives of Southern subsistence homesteaders to build factories to manufacture silk hosiery on contract for Dexdale Hosiery Mills of Lansdale, Pa. His explanation...
...junior colleague, Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, have been faithful Roosevelt men, rewarded with plenty of PWA and WPA money. Bone has shown some independence: he supported Pat Harrison for Senate Leader against the White House demand for "Dear Alben" Barkley, he voted to override the President's bonus veto, and he voted against the Reorganization Bill this year. With these major exceptions, however, Bone's record is that of a consistent New Deal Senator...
This last, with some individual quirks, is reflected in his voting record. For: 3.2% beer, NRA, reciprocal tariffs, stock exchange control, work relief, Social Security, overriding the President's bonus veto, Naval Expansion, Supreme Court retirement, repealing publicity for corporate salaries...
...voted against reciprocal tariffs, the Court bill, Reorganization, the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Moratorium, permanent CCC, Wages-&-Hours, AAA II, both the 1937 and 1938 Relief bills. He explains his opposition mostly on grounds of economy, but he voted to override the President's veto of the 1936 bonus bill, the biggest Treasury raid in Congressional history. His fellow Republicans value him not as a legislator but as an oratorical shock trooper. Imposing, hawk-nosed, witty, a voluptuous lover of words, Congressman Short is willing to talk on almost anything, sometimes does so memorably...