Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play takes three and one-half hours. The time is the unspecified future. The hero is the King of England. In the first act, the King resists the attempts of his Cabinet to deprive him of the right of veto. In the second, he talks tediously with his mistress. In the third, he is approached by the U. S. Ambassador and informed that the U. S. wishes to return to the British Empire-to absorb it. Shaw eventually postulates his thesis, which is a criticism of democracy most succinctly expressed in the somewhat muddled Shavianism spoken by King Magnus...
...gathered together a vast assortment of press clippings on the pending Tariff and Farm Relief Bills, pasted them in large scrap books. The President was disturbed to find that 90% of the press sentiment was against the House's Tariff handiwork. Around Washington sped the gossip that he would veto the Tariff Bill unless the Senate altered it to conform more nearly to popular desires...
...official announcement has been made of any action which may have been taken by the committees controlling either the Chemical or Biological laboratories. Rumours have been heard that at least one of these bodies has taken the simplest though most unsatisfactory method of setting controversial questions, the pocket veto...
...polls predicted its probable defeat. Its advocates schemed how they could transfer it from the farm bill to the tariff bill, explaining that its location there would be more logical. In the tariff bill they thought it would muster more House support, would be harder for the President to veto. Nebraska's Norris drafted an amendment to reduce the bounty on crops over-produced...
...hated Austrians are now the "champions of champions," almost the whole Italian press spent the week in working itself up to a purple pitch of fury-even demanding that Italy, as one of the seven guarantors of the first League of Nations loan to Austria, should use her veto power to prevent the Austrian government from floating another loan (TIME, April...