Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of it. the cable seemed an invitation to opportunity. The Chinese Nationalists certainly thought so-they voted against it in the U.N. The Russians appeared to think so-they withheld their veto so that the invitation could be transmitted. By their cheap conquest of one island outpost, the Red Chinese had, in a sense, persuaded the Western powers to sue for truce. Peking, without being asked to justify its behavior in any way, was being given the opportunity to use the U.N. as a forum to push its claim to Formosa and its demand for U.N. membership...
...Senate strength has dwindled to seven seats; the Liberals hold 75. Liberal St. Laurent would scarcely appoint Tory politicians. But he hoped that his non-political appointments would correct some of the Senate's imbalance. Intimates reported that he was deeply disappointed at the church's veto...
...accepting the Paris accords, France surrendered its last legal veto over...
...mixed marriages" among themselves, unless the church agreed. Stadta's intention was that approval should be sought from the Roman Catholic Military Vicar of the U.S.-New York's Cardinal Spellman. But as reported from Madrid, his covenant seemed to say that the Spanish Catholic clergy could veto a marriage between a Protestant G.I. and a Catholic WAC or WAVE...
...days after the strike's end, a special joint session of Congress met to consider Cafe Filho's veto. In wage-conscious Rio, not one Congressman was bold enough to speak in the President's defense, but when the debate ended, the vote in favor of the wage-raise bill (124-120) fell far short of the needed two-thirds majority, and the President's veto stood...