Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed a catchall housing bill, calling for spending $2,675.000.000-or $1,075,000.000 more than the Administration thought necessary-on urban renewal, public housing, college housing, etc. over the next six years. Despite token cuts accepted by Senate Leader Johnson, maneuvering skillfully against the possibility of a presidential veto, the bill would still authorize spending in fiscal 1960 of up to $185 million over the Eisenhower Administration's balanced budget...
...Mexico's Grant County: "We are leaving the door open to some religious groups coming in here and possibly saying that marijuana should be used as part of its religious practice." New Mexico's Temperance League plans to organize a campaign urging the Governor to veto the pro-peyote bill. "We don't think it's a good thing for the state," said the league's executive secretary, the Rev. Durward R. Trolinger last week. "Peyote has a narcotic effect; it causes hallucinations. It should not be legalized, even if only for religious purposes...
TRADING-STAMP BAN has been passed by Wyoming legislature, goes to Governor Joe Hickey for his approval or veto. Stamps are outlawed in Kansas and District of Columbia; other states have statutes that discourage use of stamps...
...unicameral legislature, an ethnic Greek president and an ethnic Turkish vice-president will compose the legislative and executive leadership. The Turkish vice-president will have a veto on matters affecting the Turkish minority or the security of Turkey itself. Such a scheme closely resembles the one John Calhoun advanced to protect Southern minority rights in the pre-civil war United States...
...liberty from British rule but also union with Greece. It is not at all clear that EOKA will find even a free Cyprus acceptable. Furthermore, potential dangers to the successful working out of the proposal lie in the concurrent majority scheme itself. When the Turkish vice-president uses his veto, how will it be accepted by the Greek majority which will control two-thirds of the single-chambered legislature. It would be naive to assume that from now on life will be a Mediterranean idyll for the people of Cyprus...