Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held Mr. Jackson. Only 280 members of the House cared enough about the bill to show up last week for a vote to override the President's veto. Of the 280, 153 wanted to override, 127 said nay. The motion failed for lack of the required two-thirds. Representative Francis Walter, Democrat, of Easton, Pa. (ex-New Dealer who took up the bill when Goodman Logan died), promised to carry on next session. Prospects were that some compromise measure would be cobbled together...
...again talked with Mr. Hull. In the rain outside, men & women sloshed up & down Pennsylvania Avenue, now & then looking curiously at the White House. There rested their hopes, their problems, perhaps the shape of their fate. Unimportant, at the moment, were the Logan-Walter Bill that Mr. Roosevelt would veto, the St. Lawrence Seaway that he would promote, the controversies, vexations and misunderstandings of ordinary times. Mr. Roosevelt had asked for the job of dealing with just such a situation, and the U. S. had given him the job. Now the U. S. wanted to know what he was going...
...bill would not only "control" but stultify essential Federal functions. When Texas' lemony, relentless Hatton Sumners called the Senate bill up for final passage by the House, hostile but hopeless Administration leaders had already given up. This week they let it pass (176-to-51), expected a veto by Franklin Roosevelt...
...Smith of Virginia. The other was the controversial Logan-Walter Bill to subject the rules and decisions of Government agencies to review in the courts (TIME, April 29). Both bills passed in the House with big majorities, both were sidetracked in the Senate. Both were slated for a Presidential veto, if they...
Before dawn, they passed the bill. Over another veto they passed another bill giving the Superintendent of Elections the right to call on the State police to patrol Hudson (and Essex) County elections. They also passed a bill which revised the handling of election offenses. Then they went home with the milkman...