Word: vetoes
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Truman then appointed Wallgren to the empty chairmanship of the FPC, and Wallgren promptly delivered the commission into Kerr's hands. Supported by Wimberly and Bailing, Wallgren reversed the Truman veto with the August 22 ruling, allowing the increased prices demanded by "short-armed" producers like the Phillips Oil Company. This action brought justified complaints from the "integrated" companies, whose prices are still controlled by the FPC. And, what is more dangerous, Wallgren's decision may act as an opening wedge for other public public utilities to demand less price regulation by the government...
VETERANS The Grab In the Senate last week, no Senator rose to defend the President's veto of the disabled veterans' pension bill. The special handiwork of Mississippi's John Rankin and the powerful veterans' lobby, the bill gives $120 each month to crippled ex-G.I.s whose disabilities are in no way connected with their military service (TIME, Aug. 27). The House had already overridden the veto by an overwhelming margin. The Senate promptly followed suit...
...long, long reach which-if it should get past the Senate-will probably run into a presidential veto...
...April, after the death of 81-year-old President Antonio Carmona (he had held the office since 1926), Portugal's National Assembly quietly amended the constitution to give the council of state (composed of top government leaders) a veto over the "fitness for office" of any election candidate. This week Portugal held her first election under the new law to choose a successor to President Carmona. For the party in power, the law worked just fine...
Main recommendations: !) slow down rearmament and try to negotiate a peaceful settlement with Russia; 2) restrain the "breakneck" pace of U.S. rearmaments; 3) resist German rearmament and Franco Spain's admission to the Atlantic alliance; 4) maintain veto power over any warlike mission of a U.S. bomber using British bases; 5) use more stringent socialist controls to keep down the cost of living in Britain; 6) establish, with Russian participation, a World Mutual Aid Plan (which would have to be largely financed by the wicked, capitalist U.S.) to help underprivileged countries...