Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress' flouting of the President's wishes during his vacation absence consisted of nothing more serious than overriding his veterans' pension veto, taxing Philippine coconut oil, extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange Bill. The nation was still in crisis, Franklin Roosevelt was still its supremely popular leader. Congressional elections were only half a year away...
...leaving to the Overseers their right to veto appointments, degrees, and statutes passed by the Corporation, as pointed out in the first article on the government of Harvard, President Dunster and others responsible saw the value of a system of checks and balances in University politics. Whereas many other colleges have only one governing board, their trustees, Harvard has two, and the workable board of seven must obtain the sanction of the cumbersome board of thirty...
...This veto power of the Overseers is not there in name alone. On three occasions, they have exercised their power, the most important being the case of the appointment of President Eliot. When the Corporation named Eliot and sent their choice to the Overseers for ratification, the latter returned the choice for further consideration. Meanwhile, many of the doubting Overseers decided that Eliot was the right man, and aware of this, the Corporation sent the name up once more. This time the appointment was confirmed...
Finally, there is the matter of finances. All the property of the University is in the name of the Corporation. They control all the University finances, and this control is subject to no veto power above. Thus, though the system of University government is one of checks and balances, the pendulum seems to be stuck far over on the side of the Corporation...
...Pennsylvania, Governor Earle promised to veto a bill permitting horse racing, but last week both houses passed a bill permitting Sunday fishing and Governor Earle signed it the day before trout season opened. Pennsylvania thus became the last State to lift its prohibitions on Sabbath angling...