Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Virginia's Bible-spouting Democratic Senator Matthew M. Neely was in rare form as he raged last week against President Eisenhower's veto of the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (TIME, May 30). Cried he: "My text consists of the ninth and tenth verses of the seventh chapter of Matthew: 'What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?' For 1,900 years these questions remained unanswered. But now every postal employee...
Neely was wasting his breath: the veto was sure to be upheld. Twenty Republican Senators had voted for the raise (to keep their fences mended at home), now planned to vote to sustain the veto (to keep their fences mended with the Administration). The 54 to 39 vote in favor of overriding was eight short of the necessary two-thirds majority. With the 8.8% raise out of the way, the Senate Post Office Committee immediately began work on an 8% postal pay-increase bill, which has a good chance of passing and being signed by the President...
...income from the James Gordon Bennett Fund has been awarded to Joseph Cooper '55 for a thesis entitled "The Legislative Veto: Its Promise and Its Perils," while Richard H. Ullman '55 will receive the income from the Philo Sherman Bennett Fund for his thesis "Two Americans in Moscow: A Study in Non-Professional Diplomacy...
...proved to be a skilled hand at running the legislature, and, in contrast to the austere, disciplined regime of Warren, he installed a happy, relaxed bipartisan staff (five of his ten top aides are registered Democrats). Last year he openly wooed the labor unions with a promise to veto a proposed right-to-work bill. His courtship won the A.F.L.'s endorsement-to the amazement of the Democrats-and after the 1954 election Goodie kept his promise: the bill was stifled quietly in committee. Wealthy ranchers, who had pushed the bill, were furious and frustrated...
...VETO FOR POLITICS...