Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that dates from the English East India Co.'s practice of handling ventures for absentee owners. Today, 22 of the largest managing agencies control 23% of India's industrial assets. The new law entitles the government to put two men on any board of directors and to veto appointments of and salary raises for other corporate directors...
Firm & Hopeful. Dulles, the first of the two to speak, was firm. No delegate could misunderstand his language when he said that the Geneva spirit could never be genuine or permanent if any nation continued "political offensives aimed at subverting free governments." Equally sharp was his charge that the veto power had been abused in the Security Council, and his recommendation that the proposed conference to review the U.N. Charter should reconsider the veto procedure on admission of new members. His label of "evil" for the record of the Chinese Communist regime showed that the U.S. had not stepped down...
...nations." But he was unyielding in the basic Russian position: the Soviet Union and Communist China are the real champions of world peace; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization must be scrapped; U.S. bases abroad must be abandoned; Red China must be admitted to the U.N.; and the Big Nation veto, which the Russians have used to thwart the peacekeeping function of the U.N.'s Security Council, must be allowed to operate even more widely than it has in the past...
ALABAMA: Grade F. "Not one of the school boards has made any move to try to work out anything," a top Negro attorney correctly reports. The Alabama state legislature recently enacted a "Placement Bill," over the veto of Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, empowering local school boards to place pupils in schools upon such considerations as "the psychological qualifications of the pupil for the type of teaching and associations involved . . . the possibility of breaches of peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community...
...state legislature might envy. But the chief executive, a pleasant, bald, one-armed ex-schoolteacher named Shuhei Higa, is appointed by the U.S. Civil Administration (USCAR), and his office is in the U.S. administration building directly beneath USCAR offices. Anything that the native government does, USCAR can veto -though it rarely has. Newspapers are not censored, but editors who criticize the U.S. occupation too freely are apt to get a talking to. "Step by step, they are training us for self-government," says Chief Executive Higa, nodding his head upward at the floor above him. Was such training necessary? "That...