Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protect Lebanon. The veto-free General Assembly should "consider how it can assure" Lebanon's "continued independence and integrity...
Pork Barrel. At height of recession flap, Congress rushed through a monstrous pork-barrel (rivers & harbors) bill authorizing $1.7 billion for construction projects, some without engineering studies. An Eisenhower veto brought back a more reasonable bill, which the President, somewhat reluctantly, okayed...
...cold to lukewarm, President Eisenhower signed these pump primers: a $1.8 billion emergency housing bill, a $5.5 billion highway construction bill and a $524 million federal civilian pay raise. In the congressional works last week was a $700 million increase in social security benefits-and it is threatened by veto...
...Crackdown. This was not the first time Mao Tse-tung had made himself felt in Moscow. For two years Communist specialists in the West have been speculating that Mao had something close to a veto over some aspects of Soviet policy. Such speculation began when the Poles and Yugoslavs-soon after the October revolt that brought Wladyslaw Gomulka to power in Warsaw-reported that Mao was pressuring the Soviets to follow a more liberal policy toward the satellites. Warsaw and Belgrade saw Mao as their best champion in the Kremlin...
...most valuable asset in the U.N. is not any individual; it is the fact that, in the struggle with the Soviet Union, the U.S. has a basic majority. The U.S. has never lost a vote in either the Security Council or the veto-free General Assembly in a head-on political contest with the Soviet Union. In the Security Council, the Russians have cast 85 vetoes; the U.S. has never cast any (other vetoes by permanent council members: France, four; Britain, two; China...