Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of political balances. By an unwritten law of New York politics, the mayor's Board of Education-to which Jansen answers-consists of three Protestants, three Catholics and three Jews (at present also, one of the nine is a Negro). The schools cannot afford to risk the veto of any group. In picking his own board of superintendents-the general staff which executes his commands-Lutheran Jansen likewise keeps a balance of three Protestants, three Catholics and three Jews...
...Veto for Canned Scripts. I heard the same sort of determined support for public power voiced by G.O.P. voters in Nebraska (a public-power state) and by people throughout the Northwest (where it has become an issue of enormous magnitude); for federal-irrigation projects by G.O.P.-voting farmers in Riverton, Shoshoni and Douglas, Wyo., and for the strictest maintenance of present Government rules regulating the use of national parks and U.S. forests by chambers of commerce in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana...
...Secretary Dulles also told the lawyers that he will recommend some fundamental revisions in the U.N. charter, when it comes up for review in 1955. Suggested changes: 1) a strict atomic-age disarmament plan; 2) a broad change in the voting system, including an overhaul of the Great Power veto in the Security Council; 3) a written code of international law behind the charter, to which all nations would subscribe...
...from FBI agents who were checking Danaher's record. The three judges promptly rendered their opinion by joining 20 other leading New York, Connecticut and Vermont lawyers and ex-judges in a "memorandum" to Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Its thinly veiled message: an endorsement of Hincks and a veto for Danaher. Brownell sent back a noncommittal thanks for a "thoughtful analysis of the problem...
...President Eisenhower delivered another blow to the cinema industry (the first: his pocket veto of the bill granting relief from federal taxes to movie theaters-TIME, Aug. 17). The President plugged a tax loophole through which movie stars have avoided paying income taxes by staying outside the U.S. for an 18-month period. The amended bill limits to $20,000 the amount of tax-exempt earnings within an 18-month period, and will probably do much to bring movie stars, writers and producers home...