Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, in a telephone address to a regional conference of Republican leaders in Trenton, N.J., Ike called for legislation giving the President the power to veto individual items in appropriations bills as "one simple way to save a lot of money"-a thrust at congressional budget-cutters who favor economy on everything except pork-barrel projects for the voters back home...
With a Pentagon veto of the plan, however, the University settled for a compromise solution two years ago. In an effort to "liberalize" military science instruction, students now take two half-course, outside the field...
...last October. In talks with Nasser and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, Hare did manage to get them to make some minor improvements in their original version, e.g., by adding a provision that arbitration-tribunal decisions "shall be made by a majority," meaning that the Egyptian member will have no veto. But on the other three points Nasser refused...
Natural Gas. Still blackened and chastened by the explosion over high-pressure lobbying on the gas bill that prompted President Eisenhower to veto their bill last session, congressional Democrats are cautious. Though the President last week endorsed a new bipartisan measure now -, before Congress as agreeing in general "with the criteria that I announced as necessary in a bill which I would approve," Democrats are holding back. Said Acting Majority Leader Mike Mansfield last Week: "There will be no gas bill this time unless and until the President takes and maintains the leadership for it all the way." Prognosis: doubtful...
...been conducting in Cairo with Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, and the Egyptian attitude is described as polite and reasonable. As a result, the U.S. decided against taking the problem to the U.N. Security Council, where there is also a strong likelihood that Soviet Russia would veto any formula that might conceivably suit both Egypt and Western user nations...