Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rail labor, Congressionally represented by shrewd Senator Burt Wheeler, is conceded Washington's No. 1 lobby. Notorious is its ability to send bills crashing through in the last few days of a session; formidable is its veto of any bill to reduce the number of rail jobs available for its dues-paying members...
...tropical palace at Buitenzorg, outside Batavia, where lives His Excellency Jonkheer A.W.L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, the Governor General. Aside from being able to tell such high-sounding potentates as the Sultan of Solo or the Sultan of Jokyakarta how to run their States, he can also veto any measure that a rebellious Volksraad might pass. Moreover, he himself can "pass" his own ordinances. Appointed to his present job in 1936, the Governor General formerly held the important post of Dutch Minister to Belgium. His wife is the U. S.-born Christina Marburg, daughter of Theodore Marburg, onetime...
Officially, the tutors are not said to be a factor influencing the naming of a man to the post, but it has been suggested that their collective veto would almost certainly block any appointment...
...Roosevelt to discuss with him, section by section, the new "Act to prevent pernicious political activities" which would hamstring the Roosevelt national political machine as well as take politics out of Relief (TIME, July 31). After their talk, Mr. Roosevelt, taking care not to imply that he would veto the act, ridiculed it as vague, unenforceable. Might a Federal employe affected by the bill attend a political rally? he asked. If his good friend were running for office, might that employe sit on the platform? Make a supporting speech? A voluntary contribution? In reply, Senator Hatch patiently reminded people...
...Shelved in committee its $407,855,600 Rivers & Harbors (pork) bill, because on second thought it hadn't the heart to spend that much money ($324,000,000 more than the House voted) and didn't want to give Franklin Roosevelt such a set-up for a veto...