Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Army & Navy are taking a huge chunk of all farmers' produce, Messrs. Roosevelt & Wickard had a pretty big price stick after all. A disgusted Congress could still vote more farm subsidies and dare the President to veto them. But as House Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Steagall ruefully put it, "there's nothing in the bill that can repeal the right of free speech"-and a Roosevelt crack is still good for a break in the market...
...farm prices three alternative "floors'' were set up: 1) 110% of parity; 2) Oct. 1 or Dec. 15 market prices, whichever are higher; 3) the 1919-29 average price. Furthermore, Leon Henderson's ceiling, when set, is made subject to the veto of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard. Further than that, the bill exempts from any price control any commodities now or in the future under marketing agreements-potatoes, tomatoes, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, walnuts, peas, cauliflower, onions, hops, plums, peaches, pears, grapes, fresh and evaporated milk...
...Denounced the price-control bill as passed by the Senate and hinted a veto unless farm politics were dropped from it before it emerges from conference...
...minuscule claims for relief of private citizens whose feelings or property have been damaged. The Congress passes some 400 of these (the passage of each bill costs the U.S. $200, which is often more than the claim) and one-third of Mr. Roosevelt's record-breaking number of vetoes goes to claim bills each year-by law he must give a reason for each veto, which means costly research all over again. So he suggested legislation empowering the various executive departments to adjust claims up to $1,000, with claims over $500 to be reviewed by the Attorney General...
Most absolute veto handed out was on musical-request programs. No telephoned or telegraphed requests are to be accepted. Requests received by mail are to be held "for an unspecified length of time." The censor remembered, perhaps, that during Prohibition bootleggers were supposed to have sent messages to Rum Row by getting "platter turners" on all-night stations to play their prearranged tunes...