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...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...
Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, 72, was all aglow with anticipation. In flying off to Moscow, Christian Democrat Gronchi had overridden the protests of his ministers, had so vexed the Vatican that Italy's Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani had publicly denounced "men of high responsibility in the West" for their readiness "to shake the hand that slapped Christ in the face." But to restless Giovanni Gronchi, who believes in "an opening to the left," the Moscow trip seemed a prime chance to prove his mediating talents and to make Italy something more than just a junior partner...
...Devlin report "was testimony to British justice and fair play. It could even have been regarded as a feather in the cap of the government that set [it] up. Instead, the government's response has been roughly, 'Tell the truth and shame the Devlin.' Politics has overridden the appearance of detached justice. Mr. Macmillan has involved the whole credit of himself and his government...
...Walter Judd, onetime medical missionary in China, urged the West to do its utmost to help refugees from Communist aggression. "Every refugee who comes out,-". said Judd, "is a vote for our society and a vote against their society." ¶ Avoided the strong prospect of having an Eisenhower veto overridden for the first time during his Administration by signing a railroad retirement bill ($150 to $200 million more annual benefits) that he and most of his advisers (Budget