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.
Empire State Building. The most famous of all skyscrapers, the Empire State Building was the world's tallest for 41 years. Its sheer size caught people's imagination when it was completed in 1931 after just one year of construction. Today New York's tallest skyscraper is still one of city's most visited attractions. Read More...