Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Filipino males pay a head tax of $1 apiece. The tax receipts have been the means whereby voters are identified. Philippine President Manuel Quezon last week announced that he would veto the woman suffrage bill unless it imposed a poll tax on women, recommended 25? a head as a minimum tariff for Filipino females. Next day, while Filipino suffragettes sputtered with indignation that a tax should go with the right to vote, the National Assembly passed a bill which evaded the question of the poll tax by substituting a different method of identifying voters. If President Quezon signs it, Filipino...
...Washington betting until the start of last week was 3-to-1 that the President would veto the Sugar Bill which lobbyists spurred through Congress in its closing days. To domestic growers, both cane and beet, the Bill provided continuance of the quota system limiting raw sugar imports, as well as cash benefits to be paid from a ½?-per-lb. processing tax, and the President was reconciled to holding an umbrella over the growers in the form of a domestic price about three times the world price. But he strenuously objected in principle to that part of the bill...
...Most important measure the President vetoed was the Copeland-May Bill for the development of Washington's Washington-Hoover Airport, which the Airline Pilots' Association this summer declared unsafe. In his veto message the President suggested that instead of trying to improve an inadequate field, a new airport be developed at Gravelly Point, "Within ten minutes of the centre of Washington . . . for use in all good weather. . . ." Since low-lying Gravelly Point has many river fogs, he also recommended a second field farther away for use when flying conditions were unfavorable...
...amending the temporary acts of 1935 and 1936; an act to allow Supreme Court Justices to retire on full pay; a modified Court Bill, which was the ghost of the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court; a sugar-quota act which the President had promised to veto; and appropriations totaling $9,389,488,983, including $1,500,000,000 for relief. What Congress had not done was another story. Major Congressional Work Undone...
...before, the last laugh may fall to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Senate may pass the Bill, but many observers believed no power on earth could hold Congress in session ten days after that, until the President's anticipated pocket veto expires. In that case Congress might never have a chance to override, even if the lobbyists were strong enough to round up two-thirds of both Houses...