Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brachman emphasized that the Council could not use its two-thirds veto power until after the Union Committee acts, but deemed such a veto quite possible either in a special session this term or at the start of next, should the freshman body pass the abolishing amendment...
...week long congressional Democrats marched up and down the hill trying to find a way to outmaneuver the President so they might emerge as the true champions of the farmer. Answering Eisenhower's radio-television speech on the farm-bill veto (TIME, April 23), Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson held out the simple lure of more money for farmers. Republicans, he said, worry about the economic problem and the percentage points and dollar symbols, but the Democrats worry about people...
Despite his obvious hardships, Republican Anderson is not in a mood of revolt. Of Secretary Benson, he says with understanding, "I'd hate to have his job." Of President Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill: "With everybody thinking he had to sign it because of politics, he proved to me that he done what he thought was the right thing...
Telephoned repeatedly yesterday for final confirmation, O'Connell finally left a message for Sloane with his secretary containing the veto and the allusion to League Policy, the Council member reported...
...calf's liver; Einstein flusters the parents of a little girl by doing her arithmetic homework) were played at tedious length. But Montgomery, who is also the White House television adviser, was consoled for his failure when he learned that President Eisenhower's TV speech explaining his veto of the farm bill got a large portion of the audience that tuned out the Einstein program...