Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again, his Truman testimonials, having run out of plausible foundation, drift lamely into the damnation of faint praise. The fact that Truman increased the White House staff from 600 to 1,200 is listed as one of his achievements; so are his January budget briefings for newsmen and his veto record (250 bills...
...words were, of course, chosen by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and they emphasized the quiet campaign he has begun to reopen negotiations with the Six for British entry into the Common Market. Those negotiations, broken off in 1963 by De Gaulle's blunt veto, were not very popular with Labor at the time. For Harold Wilson to espouse them today is as surprising as it is important for Britain and Europe...
...Sisk Bill called for a referendum to select a 15-member charter-writing board. The charter written by the board would be submitted to a second referendum. If approved, the charter would proceed to Congress, which could veto the whole charter if it objected to anything in it. Should Congress veto the charter, the whole process would have to begin again with a new referendum to select a charter-writing board...
Present state officials do not see themselves in such a metropolitan role, and there is always the possibility that a suburban-outside combine will veto measures designed to solve primarily urban problems. Meanwhile, the game of state politics is becoming increasingly monotonous, and most voters will probably remain content to leave the same familiar, comfortable people in office at election time...
...this program. It has fallen willy-nilly to the care of the Committee on General Education, which has a great many other to worry about. The Faculty Committee on Drama was set up to approve the Loeb budget and to approve main stage shows after a disastrous attempt to veto the two most successfully of 1964, the committee has more or less given up blocking the production of plays it does sider suitable...