Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farmers. "The farmers aren't just mad at Benson," cracked Washington's Democrat Warren G. Magnuson. "They're mad at everybody." Iowa Democrat Merwin Coad charged back determined to override the President's veto of the bill freezing farm-price supports at 1957 levels (TIME, April 14). But he had little intersectional support; Republican Willard S. Curtin polled his Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, found them mostly for flexible supports or for no supports at all. Said Sam Rayburn: "Nobody told me anything about removing Benson." Said Maine Democrat Frank Coffin, from the midst of dairy country: "There...
...Khrushchev answer, last week, that ambassadors ought to fix only housekeeping details, that foreign ministers ought to talk only about substantive matters "by common agreement." i.e., subject to Communist veto, and ratify a summit meeting regardless of disagreements...
Farm. Ignoring panicky pleas from farm-state Republicans, the President put principle over politics, vetoed a Democratic bill freezing 1958 supports at 1957 levels. In his veto message he explained why the bill would do farmers more harm than good. From the land came kudos for his courage...
...Ohio's John Bricker who provided the clinching argument for politics over principle. On point of principle, Bricker had voted against the farm freeze. On point of principle, he assured his colleagues, he would vote to sustain a veto. But in the interests of helping farm-belt Republicans get elected this fall, he hoped the President would sign-and he favored a petition to that effect. That did it: the Republicans voted by show of hands to urge Ike to sign the bill that he had called a "180° turn in the wrong direction...
...Pocket Veto. In Jackson, Miss., as a bill to clamp down on professional shoplifters was in transit between the House and the Senate, someone made off with...