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...former, there is considerable doubt that one Council member could adequately represent the student viewpoint. Moreover, in cases where Faculty committees made decisions objectionable to undergraduates, there would be no way of telling whether the Council member had been overriden because he was deficient in the art of debate, or because his position was genuinely unnamable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Council's Contacts | 2/16/1952 | See Source »

...more than that," snapped Wisconsin's Republican Congressman Glenn R. Davis, 35, winner of nine battle stars in 3½ years' service with the Navy in the Pacific. Everyone knew, he went on, that the President would veto the bill and the veto would not be overriden. "It smacks too much of trying to show up the President," he said. "It will not be good politics to vote against the bill, but those of you who have been talking about economy . . . should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Sump Pumps | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...House had overriden. But the game was not over. The original vote in the House had been 355 to 54. Following the veto 26 Republicans, including majority leader Nicholas Longworth and Martin B. Madden of Illinois had changed sides to vote against the bonus. Two Democrats had done likewise. The Senate. Then the matter was up to the Senate. If the Senate clung to its original division the bonus would be law. If the President's veto had won nine Senators away from the bill, the bonus would be defeated. The country waited with polite attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Congress Again | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

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