Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accordingly, Senator Borah was allowed to write the anti-League of Nations and antimonopoly planks (although the two sharpest paragraphs of his monopoly plank were cut out in the final version). Two other planks he was allowed to veto: any reference to the gold standard in the money plank and any suggestion of a constitutional amendment to authorize State control of minimum wages. William Allen White had also to make concessions to various non-Landon members of the platform Committee. Thus with Editor White functioning as a diplomat rather than as a liberal, Landon views on the platform were largely...
King Edward has an absolute veto over pictures chosen for the Royal Academy exhibition, because it is technically his Academy. This year he used his prerogative to extend the deadline for submitting pictures, to oblige Simon Elwes who had painted the official portrait of the Duke of York...
Those passing such examinations satisfactorily will be allowed, subject to the individual veto of the Department concerned, to skip Mathematics A, Latin B, of theGreek B, and French 2 (French E next year). In Chemistry, Physics, and Biology such students will be given advanced standing beyond that of the ordinary Freshman in some manner not yet determined. In History it will still be impossible to pass off History 1 in school no matter how much preparation has been done. The same is of course true in Sociology, Psychology, Economics and other Departments not represented by a College Board Examination...
Laudably aimed at insuring Party unanimity, the effect of the rule has been to give the South a veto over the rest of the nation's Democrats, produce much bitter dissension. Knowing that he cannot be beaten by a simple majority, many a trailing Democratic hopeful has hung on long after he should have given up. Longest and bitterest deadlock of this kind occurred in 1924, when it took almost three sweating weeks and 103 ballots to convince the followers of William G. McAdoo and Alfred E. Smith that neither could be nominated...
...effect such correlation, all jobs should be under the control of one central committee with a "veto power over any jobs assigned...