Word: vetoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President and Congress staged their expected perfunctory battle over subsidies last week, sounding much like tired stock-company players in rehearsals of a well-worn play. Vetoing the antisubsidy bill exactly as he had eight months ago, the President did not even bother to devise new epithets. He repeated that the bill was "an inflation measure, a high-cost-of-living measure, a food-shortage measure." Half an hour after his message reached the Hill, the House failed, as anticipated, to override his veto. Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld. The real fight...
...after five months of wrangling, weaseling and soul-searching, Congress was back at the beginning. If the veto held, Congress could start writing a new, deeper-digging bill−or Congress could stand pat for no new taxes...
...world affairs should be just as great as that of any other nation and accept as a fact that there can be no law of unanimity in a regulated international life. It will no longer be admitted that the tiniest little state should have a right of absolute veto and be given the privilege of dictating to great nations, if only in a negative way, what their course of action should be. In any universal organization ... a few great countries will have to bear the burden of carrying out the ultimate decisions. . . . Common men & women will have scant sympathy...
...bill, three months in the making, finally went to the Senate floor. Hints came of a possible Presidential veto. Walter George might have to do a little renegotiating himself...
...Japanese infamy and American shame, Dec. 7, was celebrated in Japan. In the U.S., Congress had asked the President to designate Dec. 7 as "Armed Services Honor Day." The President vetoed the Joint Resolution. "Future events will ordain the proper date for such a commemoration," promised the President. The nation seemed to sustain the veto...