HOOVER REBUFFED
BOTH HOUSES REJECT HIS PENSIONS BILL IMPORTANT DEFEAT Received 11.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, Monday. President Hoover suffered his first important political defeat when the Senate, by a vote of 61 to 18, and the House by 298 to 14, over-rode his veto of a Bill increasing the SpanishAmerican War veterans pensions. Officials expressed amazement particularly at the action of the House, which had followed the direction of White House almost exclusively in recent years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 988, 3 June 1930, Page 9
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75HOOVER REBUFFED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 988, 3 June 1930, Page 9
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