Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earlier, in a dramatic U.N. Assembly speech Ike offered to: 1. Abandon the veto...
...Faculty veto of both amendments was no clean-cut indication that the Educational Policy Committee's advanced standing report would finally be accepted in its entirety, however. No votes were taken on any of the specific points in the program, nor was any final decision expected to be taken until later this spring...
...Veto Limitation...
...Council voted. A majority agreed to let the Israelis resume work on the canal, providing that General Bennike found the project endangered no legitimate Arab interest. This was sure to madden the Syrians, and gave the Russians a chance to curry Arab favor. Russia cast its 57th Security Council veto, its first in a Middle East dispute and its first against Israel. Warned Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb: "This is a melancholy and sinister occasion-melancholy . . . for future international cooperation; sinister, because of its implications for the cause of peace in the Arab world...
...Raise. Republicans as well as Democrats were upset by some of Lee's suggestions. Instead of setting per-classroom funds at $4,600 as Lee wanted, the legislators slapped on an additional $200. Over the governor's veto, they also passed a 2? addition to the cigarette tax, to be turned over to the schools. They postponed Lee's program for merit raises, in effect put Utah's teachers in line for a blanket salary increase of $200. About the only victory Lee won, in fact, was on his recommendation for the four junior colleges...