Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would, replied the mayors of 18 big cities; it would cost consumers millions. Producers called such assertions nonsense, but nonsense or not, the issue-in political terms-had become "the interests" v. "the people." Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle urged Harry Truman to veto the bill. And last week...
...consumers of natural gas, are bound to the producers" by the "physical location of their pipelines," the President wrote, he could not agree that competition would work to keep prices down to a reasonable level. It was possible that the FPC might have to step in. Hence his first veto of 1950. Said Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas, who had led the opposition: "God bless the President of the United States...
...showed its feeling about Lee soon after election. It transferred the governor's $30,000 annual "contingency" (i.e., office expense) funds to the Democratic attorney general. Then it voted nearly $9,000,000 more than Lee had recommended to run the state. By an unprecedented use of the veto, he snipped this down nearly $4,000,000-and grieves that he has no such control over the national capital. "I sometimes think," he says, "that I am more afraid of the spenders in Washington than I am of the Russians...
Last week, after pondering the matter for 20 days, Tom Dewey agreed with the Dodger management. Wrote Dewey in his veto message: "This is still a free country." The Dodgers could go right on charging for morning and afternoon games, as long as Dodger fans kept showing up and buying tickets...
...hullabaloo of argument, President Truman tried to make up his mind last week whether he should sign or veto the Kerr gas bill (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The bill's opponents loudly damned it as the biggest raid by "special interests" since Teapot Dome. Just as warmly, the bill's backers called it indispensable for the further growth of the natural gas industry...