Word: overridden
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Vetoing a measure causes a President more calculation than thought. Important vetoes have grave political bearing. The power is so nearly absolute. Not more than 50 vetoes have been overridden in the U. S. history. Fifteen of them were President Johnson's (1865-69), and he was working on a Reconstruction (Post-Civil-War) program opposite to that desired by Congress...
...Haugen Bill and redebated. Many a non-believer in the bill would vote for it, observers guessed, if they felt sure the President was going to use his veto. Then, when the bill goes back to Congress, the opportunists will make sure that the veto is not overridden by a two-thirds vote. Such has been McNary-Haugen history in the past...
...Arthur Brisbane, to circularize all the A. P. members and ask them if they were going to permit their votes to be thus "forced" by the directors; if, having "scotched" this reptilian idea in 1924, they were going to sit by and permit "the right of protest" to be overridden in 1926; if they were going to permit Publisher Gannett to be "given a franchise for nothing that many other members have spent fortunes to obtain?" Scribe Brisbane, furthermore, denied that there had been any complaints against Publisher Hearst's conduct as an A. P. member at Rochester...
...tests of American citizenship being demanded before any Hawaiian-born Japanese are admitted to the U. S. These in time are sure to become more and more easy to pass, and the barrier is likely to be overridden. Coffee herries, mangoes, alligator pears from Hawaii are rigidly excluded from entrance to the continental U. S.-for fear of importing the Mediterranean fruit fly. Seme Californians wish that Jappo-Americans from Hawaii could be excluded in the same...
...political reasons, the Republicans are anxious to avoid having the President's veto overridden, because of the bad impression it would create. It was reported that there will be enough votes marshalled against the measure to prevent its being passed over the veto (two-thirds vote necessary to over-ride). The existence of the Sterling Bill, combining the pay raise with a rate raise will enable some Senators who are pledged to the former to vote against the pay bill alone, on the grounds that they prefer the Sterling Bill...