Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received back from the President, with his veto, the World War Veterans' Relief Bill...
...Government last week abandoned the 1917 policy of compensating only World War veterans disabled in military service and prepared to make a large and significant shift to a pension system of the sort that has followed every other war. This fundamental change was accompanied by a thumping veto from President Hoover and much wild and excited legislative scrambling, with the Senate in open defiance of the President and the House- bowing to his will...
Taxpayers v. Soldiers. With a veto certain. Speaker Longworth began to scurry about the House corridors lining up Republican votes to sustain it. Said he to one and all: "There are more taxpayers than soldiers.'' Representative Johnson, chairman of the House Veterans' Committee, hastily whipped together a substitute pension bill which Speaker Longworth said would be passed "within an hour." Declared the House Republican leaders jointly: "There will be no adjournment of the Congress until final enactment of veterans' legislation...
Thus was the record preserved inviolate: in 140 years of tariff-making, no U. S. President has dared veto a tariff bill...
Chorus of Dissent. Despite this historical precedent and veiled assurances that the President would flex out imperfections which even 'the Republican National Committee admitted were in the bill, a great new sector of U. S. industry called imperiously for a veto. Normal protestants against tariff upping are importers (i. e. department stores) who bear the brunt of higher rates, and political opponents who plead in the name of the ''consumer." Now the chorus of tariff dissent was swelled by a third and more potent group, composed of big industrialists who have saturated home markets with their production...