Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russell's candidacy was originally a demonstration in force against Truman. How much it had to do with his decision not to run may never be known. Succeeding in their main objective, the Southerners keep the Russell candidacy alive and the South solid in order to veto some other unacceptable candidate and to force a compromise on FEPC...
...Russell combined the oratorical abilities of Daniel Webster, William Jennings Bryan and Franklin Roosevelt, he still would have little chance of being the next President of the U.S. He is working to build up the South's old veto power, but there are other vetoes in the Democratic Party. Truman and his friends hold one, and they would almost certainly exercise it against the candidate of the anti-Truman Southern bloc. Truman's veto is also the greatest hazard facing Kefauver's nomination. Organized labor holds another veto, recognized most spectacularly in the famous order, "Clear Everything...
Councillor John J. Foley made the motion for the referendum that ended two hours of bitter debate and saved fluorination from a possible veto. Foley asserted that the decision should be made by the people because "it's not up to laymen like me to go against the advice of the professional men who spoke here. I certainly can't approve it however if there is any danger of harmful effects...
This vest-pocket veto and Truman's big budget squeeze of the year forced the Air Force to slow its buying of fighters and fighter-bombers, and to concentrate on building up its Sunday punch, the big-bomber Strategic Command. The squeeze also nipped the Navy's plans for building a 65,000-ton supercarrier, which it hoped would put naval aviation into the strategic bombing business. In 1949 the "revolt of the admirals" broke out, a no-holds-barred attack on the Air Force and its 6-36 which developed-on all sides-into the blackest chapter...
According to Cox, the suggestion made in committee that a referendum be held was vetoed because a majority of the Committee felt that it was vetoed to initiate culture from above lest the House members should veto the project...