Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fast-Blooming Sunflower. To reddish-blond Boy Wonder Hall, his defeat by State Representative Warren Shaw came as a sharp sting. Only a year ago, national columnists were extolling Hall's brand of "Eisenhower Republicanism," his pro-labor veto of a hotly disputed right-to-work bill, his militant demands on behalf of the farmer, his prunings of deadwood in the State House. Fast-blooming Sunflower Fred Hall was a man on the rise...
...BERNARD DOCKER failed to persuade biggest rally of stockholders in postwar British history to veto his dismissal as $66,000 chairman of Britain's $70 million Birmingham Small Arms Co. (Daimler cars, rifles, motorcycles, etc.). By a vote of 2,687,749 to 683,212, stockholders supported B.S.A. directors, who had fired Sir Bernard (TIME, June 11) for mismanagement and extravagance, e.g., gold-plated Daimlers, $31,000-a-year expense account...
...Martin was less ex travagant, but conceded: "It has been a hard-working Congress. It has enacted many meritorious measures, but it has failed to come to grips with many others." Whenever the 84th got too blatantly political, it was slapped ba-k. The Presi dent made his veto stick on the Southern-Democratic-sponsored natural gas bill, al though he was "in accord with its basic objectives," because he got a strong whiff of "arrogant" lobbying (TIME...
...Invited a second presidential veto by sending to the President a second version of a $2 billion military construction bill without removing the feature the President did not like-congressional authority to pass on military housing projects. CJ Passed and sent to the White House a compromise public-housing bill providing for 70,000 federally financed low-rent housing units within the next two years...
...wage-earning relatives) who would benefit by the new program. The Senate approved the Democratic amendments for the disabled (47 to 45) and for the ladies (86 to 7). Final vote on the bill: 90 to 0. Confronted by such unanimity, President Eisenhower would think twice about a veto...