Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previous protectors of Pennsylvania were all take and no give; Boss Pew is just the opposite. This difference was important to all U. S. citizens last week, will be important to them from now on. For Mr. Pew is likely to have veto power on the G. O. P.'s Presidential nominee this year, and 1940, except for Franklin Roosevelt, daily looks more & more like a Republican year. Boss Pew has one major requirement of the GOPresidential nominee: he must damn the New Deal wholeheartedly...
...bill passed the House, 282-to-97 (enough votes to override a Presidential veto). Last year the Senate-passed the bill (when Majority Leader Alben Barkley dozed), later reneged (when he awoke). This year it has an even-Stephen chance. President Roosevelt has indicated that he is against it. Should he come to think the Republicans can win the 1940 election, he could do them no nastier trick than to sign Mr. Walter's bill...
Plan E provides for a city manager selected and responsible to the Council. He would run the city. prepare the budget, and appoint subordinates according to civil service laws, while the Mayor would be shorn of his veto and appointment powers. The City Council, reduced to nine men, would be elected by proportional representation...
ALBANY, N. Y.--Governor Lehman disclosed tonight he would veto various revenue sections of the $391,700,000 Republican state budget, thus returning the "battle of the budget" to the legislature. Lehman's action will unbalance the budget by approximately...
...healthy brake on dangerous democratic tendencies among the people; and it was to fill out the meaning of a Constitution purposely left vague by its writers. The power to declare legislative enactments void may never have been intended for the Court; historians still disagree. Surely the extraordinary veto powers assumed by the 1932-36 body of nine old men was never envisaged...