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...concurrent resolutions, bypassing the President and his veto power. Determined to preserve the constitutional balance of powers between the executive and legislative branches, Ike hinted at a press conference that, though he liked the other provisions, he intended to veto the TVA bill, because the "unwise proviso" would "encroach" on presidential powers-a "very, very serious mistake." What saved the TVA bill was a rare if not unique deal between the President and congressional leaders. House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson went to the White House, gave Ike their assurances that if he would sign...
Back in the days before World War II, Harvard's burgeoning collection of rare books and manuscripts overflowed the confines of Widener's so-called Treasure Room, and began to encroach on the rest of the library's second floor. The University appropriated some of the then-vacant land to the east of Widener and, shortly before Pearl Harbor cut off the the supply of building materials, Houghton Library was opened. Today it houses one of the finest collections of its kind in the world...
...short order. But the majority dealt searchingly with Roth's First Amendment argument. Wrote Brennan: "All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance-unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion-have the full protection of the guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests. But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance . . . We hold that obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press...
...Vetoed the $2 billion military-construction bill because its wording tended to encroach upon the executive department (see below...
...HYRC has refused to join the Forum, since it was proposed early in October for fear that the group would become a powerful "super-organization." The representatives last night made no further conciliatory efforts to persuade the Young Republicans that the Forum will not encroach on the sovereignty of any member organization. The Harvard Political Forum will be spelled with capital, not small letters as they had formerly proposed...