Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not let the U.N. supervise free elections in all Germany, but had a counterproposal: let them be supervised by the Big Four who are responsible for carrying out the Potsdam Agreement (whose other clauses Stalin has already thrown to the winds). That would give Stalin, in effect, a veto capable of operating at every stage and a chance to rig the polls...
...galleries, and devoted his evenings to reading books on oil-painting technique and experimenting with brush and canvas. By 1950, he had taught himself enough to win the $1,000 first prize at the California State Fair. Last week 40-year-old Joe Oneto (rhymes with no veto) got his first one-man show in San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor...
...Holland bill will be killed, he said, for Truman will veto it and its proponents will not be able to muster strength to over-ride it. Maass said the only way opponents of the bill have been able to get as many votes as they have is by their "oil for the lamps of learning", program. With the O'Mahoney-Hill plan, they have gotten every school teacher in the country behind them...
...moment, a collision between Schools N01 and 2. The next move is Russia's, and Vishinsky has already telegraphed his punch. Russia says it would consent to Four-Power supervision of Soviet zone elections, but not to U.N. supervision. Four-Power supervision would give Russia a card-staking veto. In this, Russia has a good deal of law on its side, for the Potsdam agreement put Germany not under the U.N. but under the Big Four (although Russia has already violated the Potsdam agreement). Vishinsky's counteroffer is expected this week...
Fortunately, however, President Truman is expected to veto this Big Steal, just as he did in 1946. But this saving grace makes the Senate's performance no less disgusting...