Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measures are designed to make money scarcer and more expensive," he said, "to make it harder both to earn profits and to get wage increases." Thorneycroft announced that the government would veto all wage increases for its own employees in the ministries and nationalized industries, hoped thereby to set an example for private industry. Further wage hikes, warned Thorneycroft, "would be a disaster to this country." Snapped the Labor Party's economic spokesman, Harold Wilson: "A straight declaration of war" against the trade unions...
...accept or reject recommendations by Tariff Commission. At issue is recent vote by commission calling for import quotas on clothespins. President Eisenhower has twice before turned down such recommendations, but if he refuses a third time, protectionists in Congress threaten to gang up, strip him of "peril-point" veto in tariff cases...
...continued defiance" of General Assembly resolutions. Yugoslavia was one of the ten Communist nations to side with Russia. Burma in the end voted for the resolution, as did 19 other nations from Asia and Africa. India was among ten that abstained; she may need the help of another Soviet veto in the U.N. Security Council on the Kashmir question...
...raise for about 1,000,000 Government employees (including some 6,000 legislative employees). With a cost estimate of $530 million a year, the hike would average out to more than $500 per employee. Next steps: Senate action, probably cutting the raise to around 7%, then a possible veto by President Eisenhower, who has opposed the increase as inflationary...
...from Congress in 1954 a grudging bit of price-support flexibility, but last year it took an Eisenhower veto to keep Capitol Hill from restoring the old system of rigid, mandatory support, at 90% of parity, under six basic farm commodities, including wheat, cotton, corn. Benson himself has had to learn to bend with political winds, to compromise, zigzag and, as he puts it with a wan smile, "rise above principle...