Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly % on the capital value of land (TIME, May 4) be included in the Finance Bill this year, although the levy will not be made for two years at least. By this technical maneuver Mr. Snowden sought to make his project a "money bill" and thus not subject to veto by the House of Lords, sure to veto it otherwise...
...entire day's session had been set aside for Conservative attacks on the Chancellor's motion. Unexpectedly it passed unopposed. Conservatives, in a panic, had suddenly realized that if the House of Lords were permitted to veto the levy, Scot MacDonald could dissolve Parliament and campaign with an ideal Laborite platform: "Abolish the Lords! Levy on the landlords...
...Still under fire for his veto of the Wagner bill, President Hoover last week appointed John R. Alpine of New York, an A. F. of L. man, as special assistant to Secretary of Labor Doak to expand the existing Federal Employment service with an extra $500,000 allowed by Congress. Meanwhile Secretary Doak, reporting an increase in February employment over January, declared: "It looks to me like the first sign of a general pick-up in industry...
...Kansas Legislature's adjournment last week, Governor Harry Woodring vetoed three bills to restore Death by electricity as the maximum Kansas punishment for first-degree murder or robbery with firearms. The last legal execution by the State was in 1870. Amid a chorus of praise and protest Governor Woodring explained: "My veto of these bills is not actuated by any maudlin sympathy for the criminal. It is axiomatic that it is not the severity but the certainty of punishment that deters the criminal. Public opinion is overwhelmingly against these bills...
...Carlton conference's chairman a set of 14 embarrassing political questions which he suggested the Progressives answer. He asked, among other things: Should the 18th Amendment be repealed? Should the Government undertake the ownership and operation of railways? Should the Constitution be amended to deprive the President of veto power? Should the country adopt the dole system...