Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also salute North Carolina's great gubernatorial power, who, despite his veto handicap (North Carolina Governors do not have the power of veto), proclaims such earthshaking events as "North Carolina Possum Pickin' Day," "National Hollerin' Day" and "Frog Jumping...
...Demonstration Agency (CDA) activities in Cambridge, are angrily, and for the first time, effectively pressing for more power in the decision-making process. The staff, conceived as the working arm to implement board proposals, is divided, confused, and idle. The City Manager in City Hall, wielding his ever-ready veto power, is anxiously awaiting the imminent collapse of the program. And perhaps most significantly, the Nixon administration signaled last week its intent to phase the program out of existence within a year, in favor of non-resident-controlled block grants of revenue sharing...
...tack the bill for additional services onto the already strained city budget. To avoid the onus of deleting established and popular services when federal CDA money dries up in 1974, these fiscal conservatives have chosen to clamp down now, by effectively shutting off old programs and enlarging the veto power to prevent new ones...
...Small Shift. That a vote was taken at all represented some gain for reform, since the appointment of chairmen on the basis of seniority had been virtually automatic since 1910. Last month, each party decided to empower its caucus with what amounts to a veto over such selections. The vote last week was the first attempt...
...Oath. Late in September, however -for no clear reason-Smith vetoed the bills he himself had supported. He explained later that the legislation "didn't do what those interested in the banking business thought to be best." After his veto, the stock of National Bankers Life started going down; the latest selling price was 2½. The SEC investigation, begun as a routine check into a Dallas firm's records, was soon going full pace. When officials questioned Governor Smith in December, he declined to give evidence under oath. Smith maintains, however, that he has done nothing wrong...