Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upheld (34-to-49) President Hoover's veto of the Muscle Shoals Bill...
President Hoover last week accepted one great national issue and helped build up another. He accepted the Insurgents' challenge on the Power issue by vetoing the Muscle Shoals Bill. His pocket veto of the Wagner Bill to reform the Federal employment service loomed like a big square target for Democrats to shoot...
...Muscle Shoals the President reiterated his belief in controlling the "Power Trust" by regulation rather than by direct public competition. His veto message, to which he brought his full professional prestige as an engineer, made these objections to the bill: 1) Government operation of the plant would produce a loss of $2,000,000 per year; 2) Muscle Shoals is no longer needed for national defense because private companies now make ample synthetic nitrogen; 3) no private company would take a restricted lease on the nitrate plant; 4) unknown millions would be required to modernize the "more or less obsolete...
...showed a pudgy Herbert Hoover knee-deep in a junk wagon labelled U. S. A. Prominent was a large dead fish, labelled FISH (meaning Red-hunting Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York). Temporarily tacked to Mr. Hoover's left hand was a loose piece of paper marked BONUS VETO. Explained a grey-bearded John Reed clubfellow...
...Idaho legislature repassed and made law a similar 90-day measure, over last fortnight's veto by Governor C. Ben Ross. It was felt, however, that Idaho's divorce-counter would feel a lack of the gambling facilities which help make life bearable in Reno. Representative Maude Largent Cosho pointed out: "Visitors would go back east and say they had to sit around and crochet. That isn't as good advertising as we're getting from spuds and Senator Borah...