Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago next month with a list of minimum demands: i) less Washington meddling below the Mason-Dixon line; 2) a Southern Vice President-or any Vice President but Henry Wallace; 3) a re-turn to the two-thirds rule, under which Southerners for many decades exercised an absolute veto power on the convention's choice of presidential candidates. Unless these demands are listened to with respect, the "bolting" Southerners have instructions to use a little none-too-subtle blackmail...
...Gustavus Franklin Swift, who is also prominently hung. There are gentler people like Wisconsin University's goateed Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, to whom dairymen are forever grateful. He refused patents or profit on his butterfat-measuring Babcock Test. There is Herbert Hoover; he was hung for his veto of legislation which would have hurt livestock...
...praise to the President for his veto of the revenue bill [TIME, March 6], and to Mr. Willkie for facilitating the veto. This is perhaps the first time the President has been wholly right, or Mr. Willkie wholly forthright, on an urgent domestic issue. Both men, in this instance, have behaved like statesmen, accepting the proper risks or responsibilities of leadership along with the privileges...
...process begun in 1937, by which control of the Senate has passed from convinced or captive New Dealers to a working coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. For the New Deal is a real minority now: of the last 13 who voted to uphold the President's veto, at least three are secretly against a Fourth Term for their Boss...
Therefore, as the Senate retains its Constitutional power to veto a treaty by the vote of one-third plus one of the Senators present, the life, personality and opinions of Thomas Terry Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have become of portentous significance to the U.S. and to the world...