Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These three issues, by and large, were the ones with which the President concerned himself. He did veto the Natural Gas Bill although for the wrong reasons. Otherwise he "roughed it" in the Rockies and even managed to upset the angling fraternity by taking 40 trout without a licence in a single day. He left natural resources under the infrequently benevolent hands of McKay who eventually resigned to run for the Senate against Wayne Morse. Fred Seaton replaced McKay, and continued his predecessor's policies...
...expected that Russia, with its veto power, would let the Security Council take any action, either to undo or punish Nasser's seizure. The U.S. was surprised at the timing, but acquiesced. Said Dulles: "This is an interdependent world, and you cannot thrive and prosper if you deny the principle of interdependence." Taking the case to the U.N. was another way of airing the West's concern, of impressing the world with its urgency and of seeking a settlement by means rooted not in the jungle...
...industrial First District (Portland) to five-term Representative Robert Hale by only 28 votes, and may apply for a recount. Democrats won 63 seats in the 184-member state legislature- an increase of 23, six of them in Portland alone-to knock out the Republicans' two-thirds veto power in the house...
Search for Compromise. That same day a dramatic switch took place in London. The British government began talking about taking the Suez dispute to the U.N. In Washington Secretary Dulles, though cool to a plan that could be so easily snarled by a Russian veto or by an endless debate, indicated that he might accept it as a device for keeping "moral pressure" on the Egyptian dictator. But the search for some formula that might break the deadlock went feverishly on in Washington, where, without bothering about the sacred protocol of presenting credentials, France's newly arrived Ambassador Herve...
...regular Kansas Republicans make their moves slowly; they abhor violent change. Stunned by Hall's ax-wielding and pro-labor actions, they assessed the situation silently, then began moving Kansas and earth to throw the upstart out. Hall's right-to-work veto drew the wrath of the powerful Kansas City Star; his purge of old friends in the State Civil Service Board brought suspicious frowns; his meddling and muddling in legislative affairs ("I am the governor") stirred deep resentment. When Hall called recalcitrant legislators "s.o.b.s" to their faces during a bitter legislative rhubarb early this year...