Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually this whoopdedoo was a prelude to grim business. The Republican majority in the Legislature was out to get Boss Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City. Hague-bossed Governor A. Harry Moore had vetoed a bill to install voting machines for Hague-bossed Hudson County. By New Jersey law, the legislators could not pass the bill over his veto on the same day. They were waiting for midnight...
...trading destroyers for bases, and Franklin Roosevelt had flatly denied any connection-but reporters know better than to believe him implicitly. What electrified the crowded roomful of correspondents was the audacity with which the deal was consummated: it would not be presented to Congress for approval. A Congressional veto was out of the question. Congress was being told about it as a fait accompli...
...trusteeship of CORP. Judge Leibell appointed Economist Willard Thorp and Pennsylvania Utility Commissioner Denis Driscoll (TIME, March 11), charged them with administering the system. To the trusteeship of Co. he appointed Trial Lawyer Walter Pollak, competent to sue and retrieve assets. Since SEC had veto power over these appointments, many a utility fan naturally assumed that they were an SEC slate...
...inhabited by 8000 students and 2000 Faculty members the Board of Overseers is in theory the Supreme court. This body of 30 alumni, chosen for five-year terms in elections open to all Harvard graduates who have held their degrees for five or more years, by statute holds ultimate veto power ever all the Corporation's decisions...
...subordinate hold the office until he can run again in 1945 and become the first President of the new sovereign State. The Filipinos approved the amendment in a plebiscite. Mr. Roosevelt's signature is all that is necessary to make it law - and wily Quezon scarcely anticipates a veto from President Roosevelt. Quezon has also asked and obtained from the Assembly "emergency" powers which give him authority to suppress espionage, prohibit strikes or lockouts, mobilize citizens for whatever productive pusuits he deems necessary. On the subject of the State he has proclaimed: "Organized society is predicated upon the willingness...