Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taxes & Economic Policy. FOR: Defense Production Act, extension of rent control and all major Administration control and tax programs, with one exception. The exception: in 1947, voted with Republicans to override the President's veto of the $4 billion Republican reduction of income taxes. AGAINST (with Truman): the Kerr bill to exempt independent natural gas companies from federal regulation; the Capehart amendment to require automatic price increases to balance rises in production costs...
Problem: how to handle Germany's demand for NATO membership. The Germans want a seat on NATO's council; other NATO powers (particularly the French) don't want her in. Solution: Germany will get a seat and a veto on the European Army council, but not in NATO. She will also get the standard NATO guarantee-that an attack on one is an attack...
...your brief reference to Governor Adlai E. Stevenson's veto message concerning the notorious anti-cat measure [a bird lovers' bill "to prohibit cats from running at large" in Illinois]: I wish to state that The American Feline Society, Inc. played no small part in this legislative battle which could have conceivably cost the lives of 5 millions of Illinois cats...
...signers reminded the President of the words from his veto message on the McCarran Act: "We will destroy all that we seek to preserve, if we sacrifice the liberties of our citizens in a misguided attempt to achieve national security...
...island of freedom in Soviet East Germany, lost a little of its opportunity to strike back if another Berlin airlift is ever necessary. Because nearly all of Germany's trunk railroads converge like spokes into the hub of Berlin, the Allies have always wielded a sort of railroad veto over Red Germany. Last week the Russians canceled out the veto by completing the last link of a 100-mile bypass railroad circling Berlin, all in Soviet territory. Their 15-mile link to a long-planned loop took nearly a year, required 5,000 laborers, and was made possible only...