Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pollard Jones, retired, to accompany the U. S. delegation to London as a "naval adviser." Admiral Jones, a full-fledged delegate to the fruitless conference of 1927 at Geneva, was represented as feeling he should go to the London parley in the same capacity or at least authorized to veto any agreement which he felt did not protect the U. S. Navy. He did not accept his "advisory" role until he heard that his chief, Secretary Adams, was to be a delegate...
Thirteen Padlocks. On every drawer of the new Cash Register are U. S. padlocks. Thirteen of the 60 articles in the Statute were drawn wholly or in part to protect the U. S. Federal Reserve, which, under Article Twenty, has power to veto any dollar transactions contemplated in any country by the Bank. Getting this clause adopted was the major triumph at Baden-Baden of the two U. S. representatives, short, stocky Jackson Eli Reynolds and lanky, drawling Melvin Alva ("Mel") Traylor, presidents of the First National Banks of New York and Chicago, respectively...
...officially a party to the founding of the Bank, but may at any future time receive all the rights of a Founder Power by assuming responsibilities which the Hoover Administration declines to undertake. Most of the rights in question are secured to the U. S. anyway by the "Veto Clause" (Article Twenty...
...perfection of the machinery of the plan, but rather on the question as to whether the world is ripe for so comprehensive and so sweeping a sacrifice of national interests. The clause which provides that each nation may safeguard its national desires is reminiscent of the liberum veto and is attended with the same dangers. Although only the future can determine the success of the World Bank, it is certain that the plan is among the most progressive experiments...
...Veto. Also envisioned in the Young Plan was a veto proviso drafted last week at Baden-Baden to give the central bank of each nation power to limit or prevent any transaction of the B. I. S. in the country of the central bank in question or in its currency...