Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Anderson, Persons, Halleck and Dirksen giving him incalculable aid, Ike adeptly forced his balanced budget upon the overwhelmingly Democratic 86th Congress. His sharpest instrument was his veto power; five times so far this year, the President vetoed measures he considered extravagant, and each time he made his veto stick. By mid-session, even as Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was grumbling about "vetoes, vetoes, vetoes," the Democratic congressional leadership threw in the towel, began working for legislation close enough to the President's own spending recommendations to escape the veto. At that point, the Eisenhower budget battle...
Despite the Democratic majorities confronting him in Congress in all but the first two years of his Administration, Dwight Eisenhower built up a remarkable record of making his vetoes stick: of his first 143 vetoes. Congress failed to override a single one. Last week, just before he took off for Europe, the President jeopardized his perfect record with Veto No. 144. Turned down: the lardy, $1.2 billion public works bill, more popularly called "the pork-barrel bill." Objected Ike in his veto message: the bill included 67 new projects not listed in his budget. These projects would add only...
...phrase "individual capacity" is both the measuring stick and the debating point. Even Southern Rhodesia's liberal ex-Prime Minister Garfield Todd, so reviled by his fellow whites for "pushing the Africans forward," would limit the franchise. After all, it is only eleven years since Britain itself abolished the universities vote, a weighing of the franchise in favor of the educated...
...Cleft Stick. The Reds struck back. Despite the monsoon rains that were pouring down, sweeping away airstrips and flooding the valleys, Communist-led Black Thai tribesmen, trained and equipped in North Viet Nam, last month invaded the remote northern Laotian provinces of Phongsaly and Samneua. Slipping expertly through the suffocating jungle, the Red guerrillas surprised one small Laotian army garrison after another, inflicted 300 casualties on government forces and captured several villages lying astride the classic invasion route into Laos from the battle-renowned village of Dienbienphu...
Magnetic Cards. Magnetized playing cards that stick to the surface of a magazine-sized magnetic playing board for games on trains, planes or outdoors were put on sale by Magnetic Cards of Calif., Inc., Santa Monica. Price: $9.95 for a 12½-by-12½| in. playing board and a deck of cards...