Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal relief for the fourth winter of the Depression last week became a matter of three-way compromise, with the House, the Senate and the President all at odds. Individual pride of opinion ran high. The White House threatened a veto if its will were denied. The Senate had "principles" it swore it would never surrender. The House, through its Speaker, raged and cursed to have its own way. Meanwhile the destitute of the nation trembled in fear lest they in their plight get nothing from a quarrelsome capital. Early this month the House passed (215-to-182) an omnibus...
...voted for: War (1917), the 18th Amendment (1917), restrictive immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1924-27), tax increase (1932). Federal Farm Board (1929). the "Lame Duck" Amendment to the Constitution (1932), bonus loans over veto...
...Bonus boosters' strength indicated that the House would probably pass the Patman bill and send it to the Senate. In that body 56 Senators-a majority-were said to be lined up against the Bonus. But even should the measure somehow get by Congress an insurmountable veto awaited it at the White House...
...home while dressing for dinner. The gift had no connection with the establishment of the Board of Taxicab Control. He suggested that had he really wished to graft from the Parmelee Company he could have gotten much more than $26,535 by failing to veto a proposal for higher cab fares, passed by the Board of Aldermen, which would have profited the organization $1.000.000 per year...
...seemed to be in the making last week. Franklin Delano Roosevelt still lacked a majority of first-ballot votes which has clinched the nomination at every convention since 1848.? Bitterly leagued against him were the Smith and Garner forces, which, with "favorite son" votes, might yet constitute a veto of Governor Roosevelt's ambition. Groggy from such a factional fight, the convention would, as it did in 1924, turn to some outsider who had not figured in the fray. At Madison Square Garden the tired delegates went to West Virginia for their man, John William Davis. At the Chicago...