Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House was in no hurry at all to take up the Senate-passed bill to ladle out $1 billion in easy-term loans for local public works. Nor was there any audible clamor for overriding the President's rivers and harbors pork-barrel veto or for drawing up any new public-works programs...
...President were to override any recommendation of the Tariff Commission, Congress would have 60 days to reverse his decision by a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate. Actually, Congress already has that power: it can pass laws reversing presidential tariff-cutting decisions, then override a presidential veto by a two-thirds vote. The only real difference is that under the Martin amendment a resolution reversing the President would become privileged business; i.e., it could come directly to the floors of Congress without being delayed or sidetracked in committees...
...Republican Homer Capehart two years ago, Claude R. Wickard accused the Eisenhower Administration of basely betraying the U.S. farmer. Cried President Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture (1940-45): "I have before me [Candidate] Eisenhower's promises to farmers in 1952 and [President] Eisenhower's veto message of the first 1956 farm bill. Like the man on the flying trapeze, he has switched from one to the other with the greatest of ease...
Back to the Brink. At voting time ten hands around the semicircular council table went up in favor of the U.S. resolution ; Sobolev sat impassively, his hands folded in his lap. A moment later, by raising his hand in opposition, he delivered Russia's 83rd U.N. veto. Then, when Sobolev dusted off his old resolution denouncing U.S. Arctic flights and calling for an immediate unprepared summit conference, the council glumly rejected it 9 to i, with Sweden abstaining...
...Economics, and Togoland's top businessman. As a result of his boycott, an Assembly was elected without a single member of the opposition represented, and France was able to keep control of defense, finance, labor and education, as well as the High Commissioner's power to veto any legislation. Last year, dissatisfied with Togoland's progress toward independence, the U.N. politely but firmly ordered a general election to be held under U.N. supervision...