Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governor of Illinois handed the governor of Texas a statement. It was generally in favor of federal ownership of tidelands. When Shivers bluntly said he thought the statement was full of generalities, Stevenson added: "I agree, therefore, with the presidential veto of the bill ... to restore title ... to ... Texas." An unsmiling Shivers stalked out of the executive mansion and hurried off to the airport. As he went, he said darkly: "This is going to be rough in Texas...
...list of speakers for the fall is not definite yet, Gwirtzman said. The H.L.U. also will conduct one major national project, he stated. Two years ago, the group raised $6800 in support of three Senators who voted to uphold the President's veto of the McCarran Act. This year's project has not been selected...
...Sparkman succeeded to the Senate seat of the late John Bankhead.-Here his gift for compromise came into sharp relief when he voted to pass the Taft-Hartley Act and later voted to sustain Harry Truman's veto of the bill...
...tick. They found out on Feb. 23, 1944. Barkley had worked faithfully to get through a $10.5 billion Administration tax bill, came out with $2.3 billion, which he knew was the best that Congress could produce in an election year. Roosevelt rejected the $2.3 billion bill with a stinging veto message, penciling in the taunt that the bill was really "a tax-relief bill, providing relief not for the needy but for the greedy...
...desk in the Senate and, in a low and sometimes choking voice, told off Franklin Roosevelt for "his effort to belittle and discredit Congress." He concluded: "Mr. President, let me say . . . that if the Congress of the United States has any self-respect yet left, it will override the veto." The Senate roared, cheered and stamped. The veto was overridden in both houses. At a party caucus Barkley resigned as F.D.R.'s majority leader and, minutes later, was unanimously re-elected in a resounding vote of confidence in his independence...