Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political drumfire rattled through the headlines. Dwight Eisenhower was pondering one of the most critical political decisions of his presidency: Should he sign the farm bill? Or should he veto it? Many politicians-some Republicans and most Democrats-said again and again that a veto might be ruinous to the G.O.P. cause. But a signature would mean accepting a set of laws that Eisenhower has consistently opposed as economically unsound and. in the long run, bad for the farmers...
...speech to the Eastern Maine Harvard Club, James R. Hightower, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages, said China should be a member of the General Assembly without the veto that a permanent seat in the Security Council would give. "We may not approve of the government of Red China," he said, "but neither do we approve the government of Russia, and yet we recognize it and deal with...
...compromise, but asking for a bill that he could sign in good conscience. But some of the ten members of the conference committee read Ike's statement as a hint that he would accept complete emasculation of the Administration's flexible price support program rather than veto a farm bill this year. Accordingly, at week's end, the committee came forth (by an 8-to-2 vote, Vermont's Republican George Aiken and Florida's Democratic Spessard Holland dissenting) with a bill that Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, the committee's chairman, jauntily declared "gave...
...Ellender and Democrat Harold Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, announced that they "fully expected" it would pass both House and Senate, perhaps within the week. At week's end President Eisenhower called Ezra Benson in for a discussion of the bill. Emerging, Benson strongly implied a veto unless Congress changed the measure considerably. Then Ike set up a farm bill conference with congressional leaders. The White House hope, a dim one: House and Senate may still make some sense out of what the conference committee has brought forth...
...excavate further. Entering through a shaft bored in the ground, he and his colleagues penetrated an elaborate catacomb, but found that all loose objects of value had disappeared. Fact was that the catacomb had been discovered 20 years before, and covered quietly by the landowners to avoid an official veto on building over...