Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sending to Congress a Defense Department reorganization plan which, barring a congressional veto, will become law July 1. The plan straightens out the chain of command within the Defense Department, increases the authority of the civilian directors of the Department, and gives added power to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...unwilling Chinese to be dealt with. The U.N. had not really expected the enemy to accept this. And the U.N. had illogically demanded that the proposed prisoner commission of five neutral nations should act unanimously-after expressing fears that the Polish and Czech members would wield a veto...
...after a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A late '30s protege of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Economist Pasvolsky served as Hull's principal behind-the-scenes strategist at the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences, broke a Big Five deadlock at San Francisco by "reinterpreting" the veto question and rewriting the U.N. charter...
...lack of any German forces." Those who oppose the European Army, with its twelve German divisions, have proposed no alternatives, said Dulles. "The theoretical alternative is that Germany might be made a member of NATO and re-create its own national forces, but, of course, the French have a veto, and I am told that they would be even more opposed to that than ... to the European Army." The U.S. could not keep large forces in an indefensible Europe. "I do not believe that the Americans are going to send a great many troops over here to fight...
Since any of Ivy's six college stations can veto the admission of a new member, WBRU's attempt to join appears thrown out for the moment. But WHRB has agreed to a compromise, however, and Brown was admitted for one year as a provisional member. It will receive all rights and privileges except voting power, at the discretion of Ivy's General Manager, Jay Janis...