Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill last week, tossed it to the Senate to cool off. In the face of the war in Korea, the House approved a $1 billion cut in excise taxes on such items as train fares, movie admissions, luggage, jewelry and furs. And though President Truman had promised to veto any bill that did not balance these cuts with increases somewhere else, the House failed by a slim $12 million to make up the difference. To get new revenue, the House voted...
During a lull between visitors, he took a long, hard look down the barrel of a cannon. He vetoed the controversial basing point bill (see BUSINESS). He had waited until the tenth and last day, after which the bill would have become law without his signature. But he had intended all along to veto it, he told a caller. He felt like the blacksmith on the jury out in Missouri, said the President. The judge asked him if he felt any prejudice against the defendant. "Oh, no, judge," said the fellow. "I think we ought to give him a fair...
...rent control, quickly ironed out minor differences with the Senate's bill. Democrats on its Ways & Means Committee, who have been tinkering despondently with the bill cutting excise taxes $1,100,000,000, produced a new proposal to meet Harry Truman's warning that he would veto any bill which did not make up the revenue elsewhere. It would increase taxes on large corporation profits from the present 38% to 41% to bring in $433,000,000. With the prospect of another $500 million from plugging loopholes in other tax laws, the committeemen hoped to get their excise...
...helpful way to settle the family fight. FTC asserted, as it had before, that it was already perfectly legal for businesses to absorb freight charges and quote delivered prices as long as they did not conspire to fix prices. Seizing this argument, President Truman at week's end vetoed the bill. "It is quite clear," he wrote, "that there is no bar [at present] to freight absorption or delivered prices as such . . ." Though his bill was killed, Senator O'Mahoney, a master of political agility, greeted the President's message as a victory. "[The veto message] says...
...student council voted to let Phillips debate a history professor on "Should a Communist Party member be allowed to teach at an American University?" The student council's approval was relayed to the university's program planning committee, which voted 6 to 3 permission for the debate, subject to veto by Wayne President David D. Henry. On March 28, Henry vetoed...