Word: overridden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such doubts were overridden by the testimony of House Speaker John McCormack, a man who knew what he was talking about. In a House speech, he recalled how, during the 14 months between John Kennedy's assassination and Lyndon Johnson's inauguration for a full term, McCormack himself was next in line.* "A matter of great concern to me," he said, "was the vacuum which existed in the subject of determining inability of the occupant of the White House, if and when that should arise...
...clue to their probable attitude is Chairman Edward Carters concerned reference to "extraordinary problems created by recent incidents." But to turn it down now means risking more than further protest from Savio and F.S.M.: the Berkeley faculty which voted 824 to 115 for its proposed solution, cannot lightly be overridden. Moreover, the proposal is not out of line with practice at other U.S. universities which have come a long way greater freedom of expression since day in 1952 when Senator Robert Taft had to stand outside the gates at the University of Illinois to speak to students...
...professor of biology was fired for expressing publicly his unconventional views on premarital sexual intercourse. True, he was eventually allowed to complete his term, but not until the Board of Trustees of the University, pressured by the American Association of University Professors and an avalanche of disastrous publicity, had overridden the firm decisions of both the Department of Biology and the President...
...that it is being hurt by imports. The commission can then recommend to the President that the tariff be raised. Presidents have obediently raised tariffs 13 times, turned down the commission's advice 23 times. By law, the President's refusal to raise a tariff can be overridden by a two-thirds vote of the Congress, but this has never happened, since no industry has ever been able to raise such support on Capitol Hill...
...July 24th. Harris reluctantly released the boat. Said he, in a formal statement: "We recognize the paramount responsibility we have as American citizens, and in an effort to demonstrate national unity, we are relinquishing our equity in the Cuban gunboat." But he insisted that his legal rights had been overridden: "You can't knock out due process of law by a press statement from the State Department." In a land of law, he had quite a point...