Word: veto
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Lang faced last week the same problem which confronted Mr. (later Lord) Asquith in 1910-11 when he was Great Britain's Prime Minister. The House of Lords had refused Mr. Asquith's Parliament bill, designed to remove the Lords' veto power over "money bills." Mr. Asquith announced that unless the Lords voted the Parliament bill he would "advise" George V to create as many new peers of Asquithian persuasion as might be needed to pass the bill. Their Lordships, knowing that the King would do as Mr. Asquith might advise, avoided the issue, yielded...
Arizona's filibuster could not beat the Boulder Dam bill in the Senate. Its pleas for a veto were ignored. Last week's suit released all its pent-up legalistic fury against what it considers a rape of its sovereign rights and resources...
...TIME trying to rook Senator Tom Walsh? In issue of July 7, you said he voted against the Soldier Bonus. He did not . . . (profanity deleted). He voted FOR the bonus, not once as some white-livered Senate sisters did, but TWICE ... to ride over President Coolidge's veto. That bonus vote of his is going to help re-elect him this year and don't you forget it! He's a good guy, even if the photo of him you used don't look...
...Vote; Veto. After four days debate on the Senate's right to see the papers, the Robinson amendment was attached to the McKellar resolution (38-17) which was then adopted (53-4). President Hoover promptly refused to submit the papers to the Senate, reiterating the rights of other nations as his reason...
...question of decency in dress, how often do people try to secure the complicity of doctors in order that a veto against indecent dress should not apply? Many other things gain vogue under medical pretext which would have disastrous consequences if they got a foothold among sound medical practitioners, such as things concerning conjugal life and sexual relationships, offenses against maternity, and therapeutic abortion...