Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would relinquish the power (in the first plan) to veto a change in the value of the currency of any nation participating in the fund. The revised plan requires only a three-fourths vote (instead of four-fifths) to alter exchange rates, and the U.S.'s vote could not exceed...
John Lewis ordered his miners back to work as Congress prepared to make the bill law over Franklin Roosevelt's veto. They went back for the third time in two months, still without a contract. But back they went, more than 500,000 of them...
...Secretary of Labor, the Acting Secretary of War and the Acting Secretary of the Navy pointed out. the possible disturbing effects of taking strike ballots in plants where labor relations have been stabilized by collective bargaining agreements and the 'no strike' pledge. The President in his veto message on the bill gave a similar warning. Notwithstanding these warnings, the Congress enacted the legislation...
...Kearney had expected such beefs-he had voted for the Connally-Smith-Harness anti-strike bill, had voted to override the President's veto. Now he defended his course, said he was certain he had expressed the will of a majority...
...Amid These Storms (1932): ". . . The next step was to begin. But what a step to take! The palette gleamed with beads of color; fair and white rose the canvas; the empty brush hung poised, heavy with destiny, irresolute in the air. My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. But after all the sky on this occasion was unquestionably blue, and a pale blue at that. It is a starting-point open to all. So very gingerly I mixed a little blue paint . . . and then with infinite precaution made a mark about as big as a bean upon the affronted...