Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, will be not a prostitute but a political zero. The President of Poland, now a Pilsudski-picked puppet named Ignacy Mosciclti, will become in effect Dictator, with power to: 1) appoint the Chief Justice, the Premier and the Commander-in-Chief of the Army; 2) dissolve Parliament and veto its acts without recourse; 3) designate one of two candidates to be elected his successor as President...
...Wallace, George Peek has much in common. He and Reno served on the Committee of 22 in 1926-28. Reno was an ardent supporter of the McNary-Haugen bill, which Peek instigated and lobbied through Congress from Vice President Dawes's anteroom only to have Calvin Coolidge veto it twice. Both Peek and Wallace used to be Republicans. Wallace shifted parties after his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, President Harding's Secretary of Agriculture, died in 1924, his last days clouded by Secretary of Commerce Hoover's frustration of his plans for farm aid. Peek changed political horses...
...hearty Sunday dinner per month, substituting a meal which must not cost over 50 pfennigs per person. Officially the 500,000,000-mark fund is administered by the German Red Cross, Evangelical Church, Catholic Church and Nazi Relief Bureau. Last week the Nazi Bureau announced that it has veto power "in every case of proposed relief...
...interests of historical accuracy it is only fair to recall that the author falls into the easy error of ridiculing the Articles of Confederation, that he fails to draw enough attention to the political sagacity of Jackson's bank veto, and that he assumes, without proof, that the rise of capitalism and its shelter, the fourteenth amendment, were carefully prearranged. But these are minor points. Mr. Agar set out to give John Citizen an understanding of his government's position today. He has succeeded admirably...
...directories became abruptly obsolete last week when President Roosevelt's first big Cabinet shuffle went into effect. Just before Congress adjourned in June, he sent executive orders for departmental reorganizations to the Capitol for approval. There was a short, stabbing outcry of pain from politicians but no positive veto action by House or Senate. Therefore by law the orders became automatically operative at the end of 60 days. In the name of efficiency and economy the President rang down the curtain...