Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting rid of head-in-the-clouds democratic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias, blatantly dragooned the Cuban Senate last week into voting the President out of office. The trumped-up impeachment charge against President Gomez was "interference with legislation.'' though he had done nothing worse than veto Batista's sugar-tax bill. Since this bill had been engineered by Batista from the beginning, the charge of "interference" struck many Cubans as ironical, but with the Army behind Batista the politicians promptly impeached and ousted Gomez...
Much less enthusiastic about Batistism was President GÓmez who said bluntly, "The bill is antidemocratic, invades the scope of the civil authority, and tends to militarize childhood. I shall veto it." This made "The Savior" so angry that even when the National Sugar Mill Owners Association offered to pay the tax without any legislation, he waved their offer a.side, spluttered, "The bill must become...
Before the House of Representatives the bill duly came, was passed in toto, by 106-to-43.* Cock-a-hoop with success, "The Savior" strutted about Havana declaring: "We have a two-thirds majority. We can pass the bill over the President's veto...
...Randolph Hearst. They stamped approval on a scheme for Federal licensing of industry to regulate wages & hours, but brushed aside the question of a Constitutional Amendment to make it possible. They plumped for the 30-hour week but shied away from talk of curbing the Supreme Court's veto power. They demanded Labor representation on all Federal, State and city administrative boards but rejected proposals for a Labor third party. And by 21,679-to-2,043 (each international union casting one vote for every 100 members) they decided to do nothing about the gravest crisis in Labor...
...additional taxes are proposed," said Franklin Roosevelt in January 1936. Two months later, on the ground that the Bonus bill had been passed over his veto and processing taxes outlawed, he asked for and got, a law imposing new taxes of $793,000,000 a year...