Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tillon's new policy of selective assimilation will not make the Congo a democracy, for the government, in the person of the Little Lion, fully intends to retain "control through veto." Yet in the absence of a white-dominated parliament, benevolent despotism in the Congo may do more than some African democracies to bring peace and some kind of assured future for Africa's blacks and whites...
...separate . . . The Congress has the power and right to grant or deny an appropriation. But once an appropriation is made, [it] must, under the Constitution, be administered by the executive branch of the Government alone, and the Congress has no right to confer upon its committees the power to veto executive action or to prevent executive action from becoming effective. Since the organization of our Government, the President has felt bound to insist that executive functions be maintained unimpaired by legislative encroachment, just as the legislative branch has felt bound to resist interference with its power by the executive...
...Ministry and military missions to SHAPE, to maintain military equipment received under the U.S. aid programs, and to attend courses at allied training camps. Jaeger also wrote a separate bill setting up a selection board to screen all officers from colonel up, giving both parliament and President Theodor Heuss veto power over the board's membership...
...bill become law without his signature. He would not sign-but did not veto-a bill granting permanent U.S. residence to Aniceto M. Sparagna, 42, an apostate Italian priest. Sparagna used false affidavits (claiming a priestly assignment in New York) to get a religious-entry U.S. visa in 1950, later married and began preaching at the Church of Christ in West Collingswood...
...reliably estimated," he wrote in his veto message, "that one out of ten persons born in the year 1955 will spend some time during his life in a mental institution. This widespread incidence of mental illness makes it imperative that every safeguard be established to insure that those individuals who become mentally ill will continue to have the needed support of their families and loved ones . . . There could be instances where a husband or wife with a mild mental illness would develop a much more serious illness with the knowledge that their spouse was obtaining a divorce...