Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Senate: CJ Ignoring the President's veto threat, tacked a rider to the minimum wage bill permitting a farmer to include farm labor costs in computing parity prices. CJ Received a Banking Committee recommendation that Harry Truman's old friend and naval aide, Commodore James K. ("Commodore Cluck") Vardaman, be confirmed for a 14-year term on the Federal Reserve Board...
...Plenty of Vodka." Gromyko's walkout only emphasized the Russian insistence on one-power veto-even for procedural matters-which they have been raising ever since Dumbarton Oaks. The Council had refused to accept a paralyzing procedural veto...
Attlee's declaration could not demolish the biggest obstacle to Indian independence-the division between Hindus and Moslems. His statement that "we cannot allow minorities to veto advances by the majority" hit a sensitive spot. Moslem League President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, who demands a separate Moslem state (Pakistan), accused Attlee of "rope-walking," repeated his doctrine that "the Moslems of India are not a minority but a nation, and self-determination is their birthright." Again he threatened civil war if the British and Congress reject Pakistan. If it is a question, he said, of "who can shed the more...
...Rejected Albania's appeal for immediate admission; C]J Witnessed Russia's first use of the veto power to block a U.S. plan for withdrawing French and British troops from Syria and Lebanon...
Dramatically, he invoked the veto. At San Francisco the Big Five had assured the small nations that the veto would be used only as a last resort and on major issues. The Syria-Lebanon issue was not a major one and the difference between Stettinius and Vishinsky was small; observers concluded that Russia would use the veto any time she felt so inclined...