Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communities. Essentially it means the elimination of graft and political favoritism from metropolitan government. It provides for the appointment by the Council of a paid administrator; he runs the city, prepares the budget, appoints subordinates according to civil service laws, while the mayor loses his powers of appointment and veto. The Council, reduced to nine members, performs the function of a board of directors, since it can remove the manager after a hearing. More important for the voters is that the Councilmen are elected at large by proportional representation, which eliminates the primary and reflects, in Dean Landis's words...
Congress had given him much of the rigging he had ordered (TIME, June 27). He hastened to make it fast by signing bills industriously all week long, working at his Hyde Park desk, collarless, in shirt sleeves and seersucker pants. With hawk-sharp eye, he vetoed a batch of little pension and claim bills, several efforts to expand veterans' compensation, a $3,260,000 building program for the Bureau of Fisheries, a pay-raiser for the Immigration & Naturalization Services, a bill enforcing publicity for PWA subcontractors and material men. These brought his veto record up above 300 since...
Farm Loan Interest. Only major veto of the session was placed by Franklin Roosevelt on a bill to extend for two years the "emergency" rate of 3½% on Federal Land Bank loans to farmers. Last week both Houses overrode the President...
...wages should be flexed up and minimum hours down, toward the 40-40 ratio. He would appoint up to 750 boards, representing Industry. Labor and the Consuming Public, to make these studies and give him recommendations. If the Administrator should not like the findings of any board, he could veto them, create another board. To collect pay awarded by the boards, employes could sue their employers in the Federal Courts. Liability: double the wages due, plus legal costs. Penalties upon employers who break...
During the whole of Holmes' thirty years on the Supreme Bench, every variety of legislative endeavor to subject economic power to social responsibility encountered the courts' judicial veto, and in every significant instance over his emphatic protest...