Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote, the Knowland forces freely predicted that there would be no civil rights legislation this session. Reason: the House, which passed a tough bill 286 to 126, would never agree to the watered-down Senate version. And even if it did, Dwight Eisenhower would be virtually forced to veto it because the four-page, 650-word jury-trial amendment was so loosely drawn that it would devastate the whole legal mechanism for dealing with cases under such laws as antitrust, atomic energy and securities exchange by the accepted injunction and contempt-of-court procedures (see box). It would even force...
...House voted overwhelming approval (379 to 38) of a $300 million-a-year pay boost to the nation's 525,000 postal workers, showed that it has enough votes to override a potential presidential veto. Waiting in the wings: other bills already approved by both Senate and House committees to raise the pay of approximately 1,000,000 civil servants in other branches of the Federal Government...
...received $1,200 for Marty, and the most I ever got was a little more than $2,000 for a Philco script. One year I wrote nine full-hour shows and numerous half-hours, and made $12,000 altogether"; 2) "I ask a lot. I insist on veto power when it comes to casting. I ask for veto power on a director. I insist that nobody can change a line in my scripts except me ... Not many people are willing to make these concessions...
Rising during the House debate last week on the $1.6 billion military construction bill, Illinois Republican Leslie Arends wrinkled his long nose at the scent of one particular section. What he objected to was some finicky fine print giving Congress veto power over Defense Department efforts to get out of such nonmilitary ventures as operating ice-cream plants, laundries, dry-cleaning plants...
POSTAL WORKERS' WAGES will not go up in near future, although House Post Office and Civil Service Committee okayed $546 yearly raise for about 500,000 postmen. Measure stands scant chance in budget-whacking Congress, but even if it passes, President Eisenhower will veto...