Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neighboring Russians. Since 1958, the Finns' readiness to please has even extended to excluding from the Cabinet all Social Democrats, against whom the Russians developed a grudge after World War II. But in last week's elections, Finnish voters were plainly unbothered by Moscow's traditional veto. In the biggest postwar gain in a Finnish election, the Social Democrats won 18 new seats, jumped ahead of the Center (formerly Agrarian) Party and the Communists to become the strongest party, with 56 seats in the 200-seat unicameral Diet...
...School Committee would have no veto over the new agency's decisions, only advisory powers. But there is little reason to believe that the Commission would ignore the School Department's professional advice. By taking away some of the School Committee's power, the new agency should help to disentangle school construction from racist politics...
...recent refusal of the DuBois Club to register as a communist-front organization has brought to public attention once again the unnecessary and unjust presence of the Subversive Activities Control Act. Passed in 1950 over President Truman's veto as the first section of the McCarran Act, the law helped spawn the McCarthy era. After that first blazing notoriety, it has proceeded through its numerous litigations in relative quiet; but the law is far from dead...
Under these terms, the law is unworkable. True subversive groups can, as President Truman pointed out in his veto message, frustrate the law by dissolving the organization and establishing a new one with a different name and roster. As a result a great deal of time, effort, and money is spent trying to enforce an unenforceable...
Sept.--Dietz asks the Board of Zoning Appeals to veto the Coop's building permit for the annex on the grounds that the truck dock is too small and that the building has too much floor area for its lot size...