Word: overridden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vetoes. Already President Coolidge's occasional troubles with Congress are fast fading from the public memory. His vetoes were not many but they were notable. Most of them were vetoes of minor bills, for the sake of dear economy, and were not overridden. The soldier bonus bill of 1924 was passed over his veto. He twice appointed Charles Beecher Warner to be Attorney-General and the Senate twice rejected the appointment. But he twice vetoed farm relief bills which called for large governmental expenditures, and Congress did not override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed...
While citizens wondered whether Justice Bailey was a discriminating jurist or a quibbling dolt, and whether U. S. Senators are efficient investigators or clumsy persecutors, Col. Stewart packed out homewards to Chicago, scot-free at last of the Oil Scandals unless the Senate gets the Bailey theory of quorums overridden in the U. S. Supreme Court...
Vetoing a measure causes a President more calculation than thought. Important vetoes have grave political bearing. The power is so nearly absolute. Not more than 50 vetoes have been overridden in the U. S. history. Fifteen of them were President Johnson's (1865-69), and he was working on a Reconstruction (Post-Civil-War) program opposite to that desired by Congress...
...Repassed over the President's veto, 245 to 101, the Senate's retirement-pay bill for volunteer War officers. The Senate having overridden the veto, the bill becomes...
...Haugen Bill and redebated. Many a non-believer in the bill would vote for it, observers guessed, if they felt sure the President was going to use his veto. Then, when the bill goes back to Congress, the opportunists will make sure that the veto is not overridden by a two-thirds vote. Such has been McNary-Haugen history in the past...