Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hire six administrative assistants. Major basis for the claim that Reorganization would give the President dictatorial authority lay in the wording of Title I, whereby Congressional disapproval of any of his proposed changes in Government agencies must be made within 60 days and is still subject to Presidential veto, which can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote...
...uniform, even though the bill for veterans' benefits already tots up to $600,000,000 each year (about 8% of the budget). Franklin Roosevelt pays both groups plenty of attention, for it was they who led the fight and passed the $2,000,000,000 Bonus over his veto...
...Board, as the Brownlow Committee had originally suggested. Though he could reshuffle agencies, the President could not create any new ones unless they were to serve functions already authorized by Congress. Changes could be voted down by Congress within a 60-day limit, but if Congress disapproved, a Presidential veto of the disapproval could be overridden only by a two-thirds vote...
Having heard the Committee's Chairman Robert Doughton say in defense of his bill that it might face Presidential veto if the third basket were removed, the House proceeded to cock an appreciative ear when Massachusetts' John McCormack urged that it be removed anyway. When the matter was put to a vote, the House amazingly and resoundingly approved Mr. McCormack's amendment-to empty the third basket by striking it out of the bill -by a vote of 165 to 126. Disconcerted, Mr. Doughton asked for a teller count. This time, as more members appeared from...
Last week a onetime Scripps-Howard writer, Forrest Davis, published a luckily-timed biography of Roy Howard in the Satevepost. Said he: "Scripps serves as king, with final power of yea and veto. Roy Howard is the prime minister, ruling boldly, conspicuously, restlessly, but only with Scripps's consent...