Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parent I. G. Chemie, Felix Iselin, will arrive from Switzerland to see about selling Chemie's large interest in Aniline stock. He will confront a tangled lineup of interested parties. The Treasury, which must unfreeze the stock if any money is to change hands, has already vetoed one would-be purchaser and may veto others. The Department of Justice is investigating Aniline's relationship both to Chemie and to the German Dye Trust. Several Wall Street groups, which admire the company more than its present management, are trying to buy control from the Swiss. But the present management...
...Expense accounts from NRA heydays rose to haunt high-flying Columnist General Hugh S. Johnson, his son Major Kilbourne, his secretary Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson. The President vetoed a bill to validate old payments to the three for excess traveling expenses in 1933-34. Unless the Senate overrides the veto the General owes the Government $1,868.61, the Major $3,335, Robbie, $57.19 ∙∙ Bird-wise Quiz Kid Gerard Darrow wept remorsefully as he taxied to an Audubon Society meeting in Chicago, where he knew he would meet Columnist John Kieran, Information Pleaser. Nine-year-old Gerard, who wrote...
...there are excellent sidelights on Arias and some disturbing pages on the vulnerability of the Canal. People usually forget that there is no road across the Isthmus parallel to the Canal. "The Panama Railway (which is owned and operated by the United States) had, by charter, the right to veto any proposal for a highway that would cut into its lucrative business." President Roosevelt has ordered work begun on a road...
Most significant part of the announcement was that SPAB, in issuing priorities for building materials, would apply the same standards to public works as to private construction. This put SPAB in a position to veto Congressional appropriations for bridges, harbor improvement, other "pork" contained in a $1,000,000,000 rivers & harbors bill now before a House committee. If SPAB uses that power, it will doubtless run into the same trouble as did the Baruch board-which had to beat down opposition from the Senate, from such characters as Mayor Hylan of New York City, whose $8,000,000 school...
Senator Mead: So in reality . . . Jollie had the veto power...