Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Mellon announced: "No compromise measures informally suggested to the Treasury up to the present time have received its approval." And again in the background of all the frantic Bonus proceedings in Congress loomed the possibility of a veto which would pit President Hoover and Mr. Young squarely against each other on a national issue...
...military parade to the Capitol. There he led the other new State officers, all Republican, inside where Chief Justice William M. Maltbie administered the oath of office. Immediately Governor Cross began his inaugural address in which he aggressively pleaded for a repeal of the 18th Amendment, larger veto powers, increased authority for the Public Utilities Commission. Arguing that "mankind cannot be made good under compulsion," he quoted against Prohibition Chaucer's reference to the village parson...
...South Wales, an exception to other Australian States, the members of the Upper House are not elected by the voters but appointed by the Governor at the suggestion of the Premier. Premier Lang announced that, just as the late great Herber Asquith pushed his Parliament Bill (curtailing the veto power of the Lords over money bills) through the British House of Lords by threatening to create enough new Liberal Peers to override Conservative opposition, he (Mr. Lang) would appoint enough new Councilors not only to guarantee passage of his laws but, worse, to pass a special law abolishing the council...
...Lang faced last week the same problem which confronted Mr. (later Lord) Asquith in 1910-11 when he was Great Britain's Prime Minister. The House of Lords had refused Mr. Asquith's Parliament bill, designed to remove the Lords' veto power over "money bills." Mr. Asquith announced that unless the Lords voted the Parliament bill he would "advise" George V to create as many new peers of Asquithian persuasion as might be needed to pass the bill. Their Lordships, knowing that the King would do as Mr. Asquith might advise, avoided the issue, yielded...
Arizona's filibuster could not beat the Boulder Dam bill in the Senate. Its pleas for a veto were ignored. Last week's suit released all its pent-up legalistic fury against what it considers a rape of its sovereign rights and resources...