 | William Howard Taft - 1916 - 164 lapas
...were fortunate enough to have friendly Congresses in their terms of office. It is an old maxim that there are other ways of killing a cat than by choking...with the legislators to prevent objectionable bills passing than it is to wait until they do pass and then veto them. Only once in Jefferson's time was... | |
 | William Howard Taft - 1916 - 166 lapas
...rock the boat so much — to use one's influence with the legislators to prevent objectionable bills passing than it is to wait until they do pass and then veto them. Only once in Jefferson's time was he seriously opposed to a bill presented to him. That was the... | |
 | 1920 - 2598 lapas
...given over almost entirely to mere pictures that carried no selling appeal. However, "there are more ways of killing a cat than by choking .it with -butter," and as experience has brought us new light and new viewpoints, we realize that advertising often moves... | |
 | Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe - 1921 - 296 lapas
...cast a given sentence. But the writer has it within his power to vary his sentences almost at will. There are other ways of killing a cat than by choking it with butter. You can pounce upon your thought from in front or from behind, from above or beneath. You can turn... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on rules and administration - 1953 - 86 lapas
...no little influence over details in appropriations. Or to use the language of President Taft: "* * * there are other ways of killing a cat than by choking...use one's influence with the legislators to prevent objection» House Kept. No. 1879, 49th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 1, 2. able bills [or items?] passing than... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1953 - 1252 lapas
...no little influence over details in appropriations. Or to use the language of President Taft: * * * There are other ways of killing a cat than by choking it with butter, smd it is a great deal easier — it does not rock the boat so much — to use one's influence with... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1958 - 158 lapas
...no little influence over details in appropriations. Or to use the language of President Taft: "* * * there are other ways of killing a cat than by choking...than it is to wait until they do pass and then veto them." M An insistence upon the proper functioning of the budget system would render such an amendment... | |
 | Frank C. Lockwood - 1987 - 428 lapas
...without waiting to hear the decision of the President or of the War Department." Miles denied this. But there are other ways of killing a cat than by choking it with butter. Hagedorn, basing his statement upon an entry in Leonard Wood's Diary for September 8, 1886, says: "The... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1958 - 116 lapas
...no little influence over details in appropriations. Or to use the language of President Taft: "* * * there are other ways of killing a cat than by choking...than it is to wait until they do pass and then veto them." 84 An insistence upon the proper functioning of the budget system would render such an amendment... | |
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... consultation with party leaders, by his use of liaison officers, by his supervision over the budget, by special messages to Congress, or even by radio appeals to the people, the President can exercise no little influence over details in appropriations.... 