Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of sound banks to save the depositors of banks already weak. Wherever it has been tried* it has been a disastrous failure. Hence few bankers are in favor of it. Last week the president of the American Bankers Association urged his members to ask President Roosevelt to veto the bill as "unsound, unscientific, unjust and dangerous...
...partnership papers of the House of Morgan, so arcane that even Lawyer Davis had never seen them, disclosed that Partner Morgan was the firm's supreme arbiter, that one partner could veto any proposal, that half of each partner's profits were plowed back into the company, that the name of Morgan must vanish 15 years after the last Morgan leaves the firm. Though the committee withheld the partners' shares in profits, it was generally understood that Partner Morgan...
...White House on his return from a cruise down the Potomac on the Sequoia. To it he summoned Speaker Rainey, Majority Leader Byrns, half a dozen important House Democrats. For three hours he gave them a heart-to-heart. Director of the Budget Douglas had advised him to veto the whole appropriation bill, take the economy issue to the country by radio if Congress insisted upon a pension boost. The President did not want to do that if he could help it. BUT THE BUDGET MUST BE BALANCED, he told his House visitors, and if Congress wanted...
...form of a broad grant of power and let silence give consent. The President would be voted a bigger, better "argol list," with authority to cut duties up to 50% in return for foreign concessions. Such reductions would stand unless the Senate withheld its consent by a veto vote...
Unless a House and Senate majority veto it beforehand, the Roosevelt order becomes effective...