Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might recall that in that question, as well as in the all-important one about the . veto power, the Cuban delegation was the champion of the opposition. In San Francisco, Ambassador Belt's impassionate appeal, and at Lake Success Professor Dihigo's logical arguments, were crushed under the steamroller tactics of the all-powerful U.S. delegation, with the result that you now regret...
...should any modified bill reach his desk for approval or veto, the governor would be caught in the middle, between those members of the Republican party, such as Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes, who want to restrict Communists, and more liberal GOPsters who insist on maintaining complete academic freedom in Bay State educational institutions...
...courts and at negotiations, Pressman gave sharp and valiant service. He established the principle of portal-to-portal pay. He helped save Harry Bridges from being deported. He wrote an analysis of the Taft-Hartley Act which President Truman unabashedly used as a source for many ideas in his veto message last summer...
...Pacific, he married Mary Pinchot, the comely niece of Pennsylvania's late Governor Gifford Pinchot. He had got started on his crusade when he served as "veteran aide" to Delegate Harold Stassen at the San Francisco Conference. There he saw the United Nations born. He deplored the veto, which left U.N. virtually powerless to prevent aggression...
From Cecil to Cecil. For centuries the House of Commons had been whittling away at the Lords' powers. Now the Socialist government was at it. The Lords' power of veto went in 1911, but they could still delay legislation. Labor was out to clip this delaying period from two years to one. The Lords suspected another aim: to draw the Lords' last teeth and leave the hereditary House as a Blimpish appendage-or even abolish it altogether...