Word: overridden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreements, provided the rates are approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission; 2) a bill which would remove 750,000 salesmen and "independent contractors" from social security; and 3) a Labor Department appropriation bill which contained a rider transferring the U.S. Employment Service to the Federal Security Agency. All were overridden by wide margins...
...80th Congress has overridden six Truman vetoes. Andrew Johnson was overridden 15 times in his one term, Franklin D. Roosevelt nine times in four terms...
...next logical step, he said, would be an appeal from the Council to the Faculty as a whole, requesting that the Committee action be overridden. Bingham explained that this possibility was suggested by Dean Bender at a conference before vacation...
Republican leaders in Congress decided last week that the grave state of world affairs did not preclude income tax reductions. Hoping to make new witholding rates effective on May 1-even if a presidential veto had to be overridden to do it -the Senate plunged into debate on its bill to slash taxes by $4.8 billion. A handful of Democrats tried to stall the Republican timetable. Wyoming's Joe O'Mahoney proposed an amendment to restore taxes on excess profits. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright and South Carolina's Burnet Maybank, both irked because the House Agriculture...
This week, after a tumultuous storm in the Senate, the veto was overridden (see The Congress). Despite a year of dodging, the Truman Administration had a new labor law in its unwilling hands. Even that looked as if it might be a good political break to Truman Democrats. They had their cake and they could eat it, too. They were freed from responsibility. It was on the Republicans; if the law brought on labor strife, or failed to curb it, it would be the G.O.P.'s doing...