Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends and foes alike in the U.N. Cutting off funds, moreover, would be tantamount to U.S. withdrawal from the world organization, a precipitate act which might destroy the U.N. It might establish a bad precedent, too: other nations could use the same threat as a sort of ex-officio veto power to hamstring the U.N. And, more immediately important, the timing of the resolution was bad, might easily do damage to the tense Korean truce talks...
...Overseers, with a veto power over the Corporation, can refuse to agree to Pusey's election, but it is generally believed that the Lawrence College president will be approved without too much opposition. In the distant past, however--back in 1868--the Overseers held up the election of President Eliot for a six month period before giving in to Corporation pressure...
...Overseers, with a veto power over the Corporation, can refuse to agree to Pusey's election, but it is generally believed that the Lawrence College president will be approved without too much opposition. In the distant past, however back in 1868--the Overseers held up the election of President Eliot for a six month period before giving in to Corporation pressure...
...course of spotlighting security risks in Government jobs, Republican Washington has begun to develop men who jump at shadows. Shadow-jumping caused the State Department to pocket-veto the nomination of Mildred McAfee Horton, distinguished educator and ex-WAVE commander, to the United Nations' Economic & Social Affairs Commission (TIME, June 1). Last week shadow-jumping accounted for another victim: Chicago Investment Banker David Lee Shillinglaw, in the running for an appointment to the U.N.'s Economic & Social Council. This time the jumpy one was a U.S. Senator, Illinois-Republican Everett Dirksen...
George needed all his training in dutifulness to face his first political crisis, the curbing of the House of Lords, which met him almost as soon as he took the throne after the death of his father, Edward VII, in 1910. When the Lords balked at abolishing their veto powers to please the Liberals, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith told the King exactly what he must do: threaten to pack the Lords with 500 new peers. Inwardly kicking and bucking, George V did exactly as he was told-as the British constitutional system seemed to demand. And the House of Lords...