Word: prevent
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...power and right to grant or deny an appropriation. But once an appropriation is made, [it] must, under the Constitution, be administered by the executive branch of the Government alone, and the Congress has no right to confer upon its committees the power to veto executive action or to prevent executive action from becoming effective. Since the organization of our Government, the President has felt bound to insist that executive functions be maintained unimpaired by legislative encroachment, just as the legislative branch has felt bound to resist interference with its power by the executive...
...word at face value. A pastoral letter last week summed up the story of Peronista persecution of the church but added that these wrongs could be "forgiven and forgotten." Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello voiced disaproval of Catholics who demonstrated in the Plaza de Mayo; to prevent further demonstrations, touring Archbishop Joseph Rummel of New Orleans, who was scheduled to say Mass in Buenos Aires' Cathedral, stayed clear out of Argentina...
...June 27 issue ... I felt no sorrow over the Chinese sailor losing his white wife whose marriage was annulled, but I was astonished to see the verdict of Justice Buchanan of the Virginia Supreme Court: "... the state . . . will preserve the racial integrity . . . not have a mongrel breed . . . prevent the obliteration of racial pride" . . . as against such American national slogans as "equality," "land of freedom," etc. I am proud of my race...
...Administration objected to a newly added Senate amendment barring the businessmen from policymaking posts. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks warned the committeemen that the Senate amendment would prevent Government "from using the best men available." Citing the WOCs who administer 15 out of 25 industry divisions in his department's Business and Defense Services Administration, the Commerce Secretary in effect challenged the skeptical Congressmen to find a "single case ... of even the slightest impropriety." He argued that barring WOCs from policymaking posts would screen out the top men, for no top executive would make the sacrifice of entering Government service...
...Game. In Brisbane, Australia, suing for maintenance, Mrs. Gladys Mary Ross declared that husband Darch Ross tied her left hand to his right hand at night to prevent her from going out with other men, then falsely accused her in the morning of having untied the "love knot," slipped out, returned and retied the knot while he slept...