veto definition. The power of a president or governor to reject a bill proposed by a legislature by refusing to sign it into law. The president or governor actually writes the word veto (Latin for âI forbidâ) on the bill and sends it back to the legislature with a statement of his or her objections.
Over the course of the construction of the Empire State Building, five workers died. One worker was hit by a vehicle; a second fell from an elevator shaft; a third was struck â¦and killed by a hoist; a fourth died in a blast area; and a fifth died falling off a scaffold.
Nearly 250 workers were injured and two died in construction accidents, while six more died aboard the ship during its building. 1  3. About 100,000 people turned up to see the ship being moved, May 31, 1911, from where it was constructed to a berth where it was later fitted out.