Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unique Acceptance. Perhaps most important of all, President Eisenhower asked for the right to veto specific items in appropriations bills instead of having to sign or veto the bills in their entirety. The item veto would be a mortal blow to the congressional pork barrelers-and they are certain to resist it with all their might...
This week, at the close of a hectic four-month U.N. session, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold prepared to fly to Cairo to open the next round with the Egyptian dictator. In an interview with an Indian reporter, Nasser confirmed Egypt's veto of an interim proposal put forward through the U.N. last month by the U.S., Britain, France and Norway. By this plan, 50% of canal tolls would be paid to Egypt, the rest to some such neutral agency as the World Bank, to be held in escrow for repaying the original owners of the confiscated canal company. Instead...
Promising Retreat. Sukarno finally backed down. He still insisted on including the Communists in a National Council which, as originally proposed, would have had veto powers over Cabinet decisions as well as acts of the Indonesian Parliament. But now, he said, the council's role would be advisory only...
...brains into assault on a single problem or concept. The brainstormers-two professors, an inventor, a hospital director and Cartoonist Al Capp-also laid down some amusing spoofs, e.g., a Chinese friend comforts Arthur in a miserable boyhood moment, thus laying the groundwork for his presidential veto of the Chinese Exclusion...
Waving placards and shouting "Veto!", some 7,500 wrought-up Indianans marched into the Statehouse in Indianapolis last week to protest against a "right-to-work" bill passed, after long debate, by the Republican-dominated state legislature. After huddling with union delegates, Republican Governor Harold W. Handley, a protege of Indiana's Senator Bill Jenner, told them that though he disliked the bill himself, he would let it become law without his signature. When the crowd got the word, boos thundered in the Statehouse corridors, and demonstrators tried to push past the cops guarding the governor's office...