Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with it Secretary Wickard's appeal for huge quantities of dairy, poultry and pork products. Although the wheat, cotton and corn surpluses remained oppressive, the demands for food crops had begun a price rise, which the Congressional hayseeds, smelling Utopia, quickly climbed aboard. It took a Roosevelt veto to stop them from freezing the surpluses; but nothing could stop them from raising the floor under farm prices, nor from demolishing Leon Henderson's gingerly attempts to give them a ceiling. Result: farm prices led all prices upwards; farm income reached an alltime high...
...College last spring foresaw the urgent need for cutting costs that prompted the Administration to declare the board rate compulsory over the students veto. Today it is obvious that even an $8.50 rate will be to high in the hard days to come. Under the present system of service there can be no lower price. With food prices going up and with the labor market shifting in favor of the workers, it seems improbable that the Administration will be able to maintain it even next year...
...Veto for Baruch. Tennessee's handsome young Albert A. Gore presented his own blunt plan for price control: an overall bill to freeze all prices, including farm commodities and wages. The Gore bill was taken directly from the ideas of Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, head of the World War I Industries Board, and had Baruch's official blessing. The House rejected it by a vote...
Then the rebellious House got to work on the milder committee bill, rewrote it almost completely. It kicked out provisions to give Leon Henderson licensing power over business and unrestricted right to buy and sell commodities-big-stick enforcement clauses. It created a fiveman board of review with veto power over Henderson's actions. The House insisted on keeping an inflationary three-point formula for farm prices, even added a parity scheme for fish. Finally passed by a 224-161 vote, the bill was now little more than a scrap of paper...
Even the Administration had turned against the bill. Leon Henderson condemned it. From the White House came word that, if Congress passed anything remotely resembling the bill in its present form, the President would veto...