Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murray's burnished phrases have less appeal than Loveless' lacerated syntax, and his urbane presence (Loveless loves to refer to him as "the college professor") is a liability, whereas the stocky, rumpled figure of ex-Railroader Loveless is a definite campaign asset. Democrat Loveless can pit his veto of a state sales-tax increase against Murray's campaign cry for a higher sales tax. But in the day of rising resentment against labor racketeering, the Republicans have a brass-knuckled charge that the 1956 Loveless campaign was financed by $17,500 of Teamsters' Union funds...
...answer to queries on his opinions about immigration policy, Kennedy re-affirmed his opposition to the McCarran-Walter Act. He claimed that the two-thirds vote overriding President Truman's veto of the bill indicated the difficulty of obtaining revision of the McCarran...
...Fujiyama was worried by the prospect that his country might be dragged involuntarily into a war between the U.S. and Red China. From Dulles, Fujiyama got assurances that the U.S. was ready to revise its 1951 mutual-security treaty, but failed to get what he really wanted: a Japanese veto over the deployment of U.S. forces based in Japan...
...said, gently but firmly: "That's fine. But it's not what I want to say." Again, Milton strongly objected to a pork-barreling rider attached by Congress to the $32 billion defense-appropriations bill in 1955. As a matter of constitutional principle, he advised Ike to veto the bill and "tell Congress to go to hell." But Ike, unlike Milton, has the responsibility of elective office, and he realized that the virtues of the whole bill outweighed the single objection. He signed the bill as it stood, told Milton with a grin: "Sometimes you have to rise...
...three-year extension of reciprocal trade and 15% tariff-cutting authority a year for the President. The House gave Ike what he sought, i.e., five years and up to 25%. The compromise bill provides four years, up to 20%. ¶ The Senate overrode (69-20) Ike's veto of a minor bill raising basic wages at the Kittery (Me.)-Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard to a $2.50-an-hour par with the Boston Naval Yard. The action marked the first time in six years that either congressional branch overrode an Eisenhower veto. Later, the House vote to override...