Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morrow approached New Jersey, he heard that Mr. Frelinghuysen's change on Prohibition was the big local news of the week. For six years (1917-23) Mr. Frelinghuysen was a New Jersey Senator. He voted for the 18th Amendment, helped to override the Wilson veto of the Volstead Act. As a Dry possessed of a famed wine cellar, he declared...
...York's Democratic Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week placed a whacking veto, resounding with such adjectives as "absurd," "unjust," "impracticable," upon a prime Republican power bill. The bill dealt with a state policy of valuation of utility properties for rate-fixing purposes. Governor Roosevelt stoutly reiterated the Democratic tenet, voiced clearly before now by such Democrats as Alfred Emanuel Smith and Owen D. Young, that the rate-fixing basis should be actual cost of plants and not the replacement cost thereof...
Generally predicted last week: a Hoover veto for the new bill. Said President Hoover in his December message to Congress: "I do not favor the operation by the Government of either power or manufacturing business, except as an unavoidable by-product of some other major public enterprise...
...alcohol threaten a revolt if their raw material is taken from the Treasury. An ingenious compromise has been devised to hold both in line: the Secretary of the Treasury could issue industrial alcohol permits only after the Attorney General had been given ten days to review each application, to veto those of which he disapproved...
...main American activity just now is in connection with the budget and financial rehabilitation. There is a general director of all American activities in Haiti, a financial adviser, and under him a score of assistants. The Americans have the veto power over all expenditures and, in fact, new laws must generally be submitted first to the financial adviser or to some other designated American...