Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved along other lines to try to keep prices down. One step was the Federal Reserve Board's installment-sales regulations. Meanwhile Congress sped inflation further on its way by passing H.R. 5306, which freezes Government cotton and wheat stocks (TIME, Aug. 11). The President was expected to veto it this week...
With virtuous vigor Franklin Roosevelt last week vetoed a $320,000,000 defense-highway appropriation bill. Reason : he had asked for only $125,000,000 to correct critical deficiencies in the strategic network of military highways; pork-hungry Congress had blown up the measure; worse, had changed the bill's idea. The $320,000,000 was not to be distributed according to defense needs but by the hoary Federal-aid formula - based on population, area, etc. The Senate happily overrode the President's veto, 57-to-19, well over the required two-thirds majority. The House just barely...
...Tinto could pull his bushy mustache and reflect on the dual perils which have beset his administration from its start. To the left of him was the danger that the Popular Front would disintegrate; to the right, the danger of another Sept. 5. Don Tinto's recent veto of two bills passed by Congress brought both perils upon him last week...
Trouble on a Flat Car. One bill granted amnesty to political offenders. Congress overrode President Aguirre's veto, and back to Chile went one firebrand whom Don Tinto would have loved to keep in exile: onetime President Ibañez, who made his return in state, sitting in his automobile on a flat car of a freight train. On his way back was another: General Ariosto Herrera, leader of the Movimiento Nadonalista, a Nazified party which made another unsuccessful Putsch...
Trouble in a Hall. Without Communist support the Popular Front could not have existed. With Communist support it could not endure, since patriotic Leftists of other parties are convinced that the Communists take orders from Moscow. The second bill Don Tinto vetoed was one outlawing the Communist Party This time the veto stuck, but Don Tinto's own Radical Party ordered six of its members to resign from the Cabinet in protest. This they did, but the President persuaded them to reconsider. Thereupon they were kicked out of the Party...