Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known that Lord Kitchener and other British commanders during the War several times modified their plans in accordance with the advice of George V. Before the War at least one paramount decision was taken by the crowned head alone. The situation was that the House of Lords persisted in vetoing bills designed to reduce its power which were repeatedly passed by the Commons. The only way to break the Lords' veto was for the King to appoint (or threaten to appoint) sufficient new Peers pledged to pass the bill to outnumber the Lords who were opposed. The Commons were...
Beginning in 1833 intrusions by the secular authority caused bitterness. In accordance with the original constitutions of the church, the General Assembly in 1834 passed the famed Veto Act, providing that no pastor need be accepted by a congregation contrary to the wishes of a majority of its members...
...record, a Republican Legislature began at once to prepare embarrassing features. The chief plan was to pass a State prohibition act, like the one Governor Smith got repealed, and dare Governor Roosevelt to veto it. That, they thought, would ruin him as a presidential possibility if by other bedevilments they could not prevent his re-election...
...years-old proposals Senator Norris last year finally did get sup port. Congress passed his bill to have the United States retain and operate its power and nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala. President Coolidge killed the bill by pocket-veto. Nominee Hoover embraced the Coolidge policies. Nominee Smith's stand for government control of water power is as well known as his first name. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission discovered to what extent the power lobby had been manipulating to make water power safe for privateers. The Republican platform and acceptance speech ignored, the Democratic platform and acceptance...
Heckler: "How about the veto...