Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote. After the tax bill is disposed of, the Ways & Means Committee will consider a measure of Texas' Patman to pay the bonus in full by issuing two billion dollars in fiat money. Last week Congressman Patman declared that, with the election coming on. President Hoover would not "dare'' veto his bill...
...emergency highway construction to increase employment; sent it to the Senate. Of the total, $120,000,000 would be lent States to spend in one year, repay in ten. Demo-crats claimed the measure would put a million jobless men to work. Republicans predicted a Presidential veto...
...Whether the redistricting measure must be a regular statute in the enactment of which the state governor exercises his normal power of approval or veto...
...movement to reduce tariffs by agreement. Great Britain, absorbed by her present emergency, is turning, for the time being at least, in the direction of protection. Germany can do little, because France more than once has made it plain that she will use her political and financial power to veto attempts by Germany to secure markets through lower tariffs. If there any prospect that the United States will abandon its philosophy of extreme protectionism? Perhaps it is unreasonable to expect most voters to see the connection between commercial policies and their pocketbooks...
...Senate voted 65-to-20 for the 18th Amendment. In 1919 it passed the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto by the same vote. Since then Wets have repeatedly claimed that their strength in the Senate was growing. Last year, on the basis of recent elections, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment estimated that not less than 27 Senators were ready to submit the 18th Amendment to the States (TIME, Nov. 15). Last week Wet claims were severely deflated in the Senate where a test vote showed 15 Wets as against 55 Drys...