Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control of the College in one group, the Puritan fathers later established a separate body to have the final control over policies. The Board of Overseers, a group of 30 alumni chosen for five years from those who have held their degrees for five or more years, holds ultimate veto power over all the Corporation's decisions. Seven times a year the Overseers meet in solemn conclave to approve (almost as a matter of course) the actions of the President and Fellows...
...stands to pay a $10-a-year license fee for out-of-State papers they handled. That, thought Reilly. would put a crimp in PM's Boston circulation. By week's end, when even Hearst's own Boston Record joined the general clamor for a mayoralty veto. Reporter Reilly discovered that he had overlooked one important fact: Hearst's New York Daily Mirror has a profitable Sunday street sale in Boston...
Even if this ordinance did no more than limit to the large dealers who are willing to pay the required fee, the sale of the less widely circulated out-of-state papers such as the so-called pressure group and party organs, there would be ample all for its veto. But the precedent set by such a ruling, as well as its immediate implications, cut a good deal deeper. From all angles it adds up in the end to a check on the freedom of the press. It shifts the choice of reading matter from the public to the City...
Numerous petitions and cries for annulment of this ordinance have already gone up, with such men as Professors Schlessinger, Owen, Chaffee, Murdock, and Friedrich among the protesting voices. Mayor Tobin will be side-stepping a definite obligation if he fails to heed this widespread demand for immediate veto...
Adolf Hitler has given Martin Bormann greater powers than any Party official ever had before. He can (theoretically) veto any law, must countersign all official appointments. He will often exercise these powers clad in one of his two dozen pairs of riding breeches. He cannot ride a horse...