Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends said this was a fine demonstration of his courageous independence. His critics accused him of wilful defiance of popular sentiment as expressed by Congress, of trying to beat the veto record of Grover Cleveland...
Finally H. R. 17054 automatically became the law of the land when the Senate with 14 votes to spare, overrode (76-to-17) the veto. Only one Democrat-King of Utah-joined the forlorn Republican opposition. President Hoover had suffered his most serious Congressional reversal...
While H. R. 17054 was still before the Senate Finance Committee for perfunctory consideration, President Hoover did an extraordinary thing that foreshadowed his veto. He wrote an informal but public letter to Chairman Reed Smoot listing his objections to the bill, warning Congress that the bill would retard prosperity by placing an additional burden on the credit and business of the country...
...almost to a standstill. Alarmed, Senator Reed telephoned the White House, broke the jam with the declaration: "The President has authorized me to say that it is his intention to return the bonus bill to Congress the middle of next week with a message giving his reasons for a veto...
With such enormous pro-Bonus majorities in the House and the Senate, the overriding of the President's veto was anticipated as a matter of course...