Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarran-Walter Act, as enacted in 1952, is based on a simple principle of chemistry: that a constant solution is maintained through a constant proportion of component elements. Messrs. McCarran and Walter (along with a sizeable segment of Congress, which passed the bill over President Truman's veto) decided that in 1920 the national elements in the Melting Pot had reached the proper mixture, and decreed a quota system of immigration whereby the number of aliens admitted from each country was proportional to the national origins of the population according to the 1920 census...
...when it went to the desk of Republican Governor George Dewey Clyde, 60, a good Mormon who had never been known to raise his voice loudly about anything. But this time George Clyde spoke up, sent the Sunday closing bill back to the legislature with a surprising, stinging veto message. Reasons for the veto: i) the bill was "inequitable" to small merchants; 2) through it. big merchants were seeking "to regulate competition"; 3) Utah's rich seven-day-a-week copper mines, not specifically exempted from Sunday closing, might be "seriously affected"; 4) the bill would force such minority...
...bitter disappointment to the people," the Deseret News said forebodingly, as the state legislature tried but failed to override Clyde's veto. "It is an affront to the legislators ... it is an astonishing, unaccountable reversal of what the people expected from the Governor...
...Karamanlis and Menderes have their way, Cyprus will become a U.S.-style republic with a Greek Cypriot President and a Turkish Cypriot Vice President. To protect the Turkish minority, the Vice President would have veto power over decisions involving the Turkish community and over some aspects of foreign relations...
...trifle dubious: "I don't think reserve promotions ought to be taken lightly as they sometimes are." But this time, the Air Force, convinced that Jimmy's training file was fat enough, resubmitted his name on a list with at least one name likely to escape senatorial veto: Arizona's jet-jockeying Republican Senator Barry Goldwater...