Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radical budgets and, in 1909, advised the House of Lords to reject the year's Finance Bill and "damn the consequences." The House did. Two ensuing general elections brought their lordships face to face with the problem of whether they should pass a bill to abolish their financial veto or should reject it and cause King George to create a batch of peers sufficient to carry the bill. Even such confirmed Tories as the late Lord Minto frowned on the latter alternative, but Lord Milner stuck to his guns and advised the House to resist...
...Donabey, Methodist father of ten, Governor of Ohio, who shared with Governor Smith of New York the distinction of having weathered the Republican gale of 1924 (TIME, Nov. 17), last week vetoed a bill which would have compelled all public school teachers to read ten verses of Scripture to the pupils every school day, and all pupils above the fourth grade to memorize the Ten Commandments. The veto message referred to "the founders of our country...
...forefathers have in mind when they framed the Constitution the lodging with any one of 96 Senators a power greater than the veto power of the President of the United States? Would they have said, when our laws must have the concurrent action of two houses of Congress, when they must be subject to the veto power of the President, and yet again subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States, that a further check was needed in the shape of power, placed in the hands of one Senator, to block all legislation-power that he might...
...present, the House of Lords is deprived of exercising a veto on money bills so signified by the Speaker of the House of Commons, is limited to a suspensory veto of two years over all other bills. The great suggestion is, How is an effective veto power to be restored? The Lords themselves are much divided on the problem...
...irregular." They make him a great asset to whatever cause he espouses because his fighting is fearless and above ordinary politics. He was one of the 12 Republican Senators who voted against the Bonus Bill last year, one of the 17 who voted to sustain the President's veto. He was one of the three Senators to vote against the Postal Pay Bill in its original form. He voted also to sustain the veto of that bill and against the bill which passed a few weeks ago, providing postal pay and rate increases...