Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress last week was to have been a sounding board from which President Bose and others could make an all-India issue of the action of the British governors in using their veto power. "King George has no such veto!" stormed a few Congress spokesmen truthfully enough, but the issue made little headway. Most of the 200,000 sojourners in Congress City were too busy playing politics to be bothered with a big issue...
...vote favoring repeal in the measure's second reading on Tuesday was considered a strong indication that the legislation be placed on Governor Hurley's desk. His veto message last year and his remarks at the opening of the present session of the General Court assert his firm support of the oath...
...ever since the law was enacted under the Curley regime, opposing forces led chiefly by educators and labor leaders, are not confident of victory. Led by President Conant and prominent members of the faculties of Harvard and almost every college in the State, the drive was checked by the veto of Governor Hurley last year...
Last spring under the spur of the two blowtorch lynchings at Duck Hill, Miss. (TIME, April 26), the Gavagan Bill, a similar anti-lynching measure, passed the House. Passage by the Senate therefore meant that the bill would become law barring the unlikely event of a Presidential veto. So as predicted, Texas' Tom Connally promptly organized a filibuster. Not as predicted, that filibuster last week rounded out ten days and had gathered so much momentum that Tom Connally jubilantly announced he would keep it going if necessary until Christmas...
Well did such a request suit a budget message. Congressmen often load an important appropriation bill with pork, leaving the President the choice of taking bad with good, or nothing. With the item veto, now possessed by the Governors of most of the States, he could separate the sheep from the porkers. Proposed on a non-partisan basis, the item veto seemed to have a fair chance of passage-an event which would make life measurably easier for any President who undertakes to balance the budget...