Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lindsay Almond, sitting alone and writing in his lawbook-lined study for almost two days, had made his decision, and he stood by it. Almond quietly lined up Byrd-organization moderates and others, quietly defied the Byrd leadership, warned the extremists that he would have to veto any slapdash measures designed to thwart the courts...
...President vetoes it," said a White House staffer, "the Democrats can make a hard try at overriding his veto and setting a precedent." It was against that possibility that the President and the G.O.P. Congressmen planned last week...
...United Nations Charter on peaceful settlement of disputes in conformity with the principles of justice and international law." Since then, the Communists-to whom laws are means "whereby those in power suppress or destroy their enemies"-have used the U.N. as a propaganda forum made safe by their veto power while using force everywhere else from Hungary to Tibet. The U.S. meanwhile helped 21 new nations advance to freedom by lawful, orderly means...
Democrats Veto Housing Bill...
...rockin' chair. The other is to stand, produce, work longer and harder." Said he of Dwight Eisenhower: "We are meeting tonight in the lingering twilight of the Great Crusade. And now there's nothing left but a desire for quiet -and government by the threat of veto...