Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor of Texas. All of these men and agencies in Washington could not do so much for the cotton planter as one big man in Texas. But Governor Ross Shaw Sterling was not inclined to use the full power of his position. It appeared as though he would veto any attempt of the Texas Legislature to prohibit cotton planting next year. Said he: "I wouldn't let a child burn itself with fire if I could prevent it. ... I have not been swept off my feet yet. There is too much hysteria in Texas and in the South." He said...
Last week the City Council also voted over Mayor Murphy's veto to close down the last of the municipal "flop houses" for single men. Eight hundred jobless, ousted from their quarters, marched to City Hall, crowded the galleries while their leaders pleaded for continuance of relief. Those who so chose-and they were few- could go to the county asylum at Eloise where they were given food and shelter on the technicality that they were suffering from the "disease of hunger...
...Philippines, Secretary Hurley's mission took on large political significance. His purpose will be to collect first-hand material on which President Hoover can act if & when Congress sends an independence bill to the White House. Almost certainly this material will be in the form of a veto ammunition. The Philippines Herald, nationalist sheet, sensed this when it declared: "We would wish that the purpose of this mission be one of inquiry into the necessary details of separation. Yet it might be that of gathering an array of facts so devastating as to make a presidential veto of Philippine...
...Washington Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham, chairman of the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs and bitter opponent of Philippine independence, admitted that he was defeated and that the next Congress would legislate to free the islands. His only hope, he said, was that President Hoover would veto such a bill. Philippine independence, according to the Senator, now commands a Congressional majority because members from farm districts want to put the islands outside the U. S. tariff and thus eliminate their competition with domestic vegetable oils and sugar. Declared Senator Bingham: "The Filipinos' chief grievance against American occupaton...
...want to sell the Post after all. The other trustees expostulated, asserted that if money continued "to be poured into the Post, the estate of John R. McLean will become a mere myth." But by terms of his father's will, Ned's lone veto was sufficient. The sale...