Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quick victory during the week over the House-approved Cox amendment, which would have set up the Priorities Division separately from the defense bureaus, would have frozen into place as Priorities Director snow-crested, urbane Edward R. Stettinius Jr., and would have subjected all priorities to the final veto rulings of the Army and Navy Munitions Board...
Unless President Roosevelt displays enough political courage to veto the bill, the probable result is that the Government, which is now financing almost half a year's supply of wheat, about a quarter of a year's supply of corn, and 18 months' domestic supply of cotton, will shortly be in even deeper...
...Catholics under Franco. Catholicism is once more an established church, with clerical salaries paid by the Government, and religious orders including the Jesuits have had their expropriated property restored. But the relationship is not wholly happy, for Franco and the Vatican are deadlocked over his demand for the same veto power on the investiture of bishops that the monarchy exercised under the 1851 Concordat. As a result, nearly half the sees are vacant, and Spain has had no primate since Isidore Goma y Tomas, Archbishop of Toledo, died last year...
...Because the Vatican refuses to give Franco veto power over the bishops it appoints for Spain, nearly half the Spanish sees are now vacant. Last week the American Bible Society announced that the Spanish Government had confiscated all copies of the Scriptures which the British and Foreign Bible Society had in its Madrid depository...
...much. As an academic argument against its effectiveness, Article 1, section 7 of the Constitution requires Presidential approval of all concurrent Congressional resolutions except to adjourn (customarily only those embracing legislation are submitted to the President). A two-thirds majority in each House would be needed to override his veto. Practically, such a resolution would require majority public opinion for passage. (This amendment, submitted by Representative Everett Dirksen of Pekin, Ill., was hailed as Republican coup-of-the-week when it was voted in while 65 Democrats went to lunch one afternoon. It was a one-day wonder...