Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was 51 votes over the two-thirds majority needed to override the President's veto, expected this week. House and Senate majority leaders were sure that their lines would hold. They had ammunition from the Administration itself: last week the Government's surplus surged to $7,163,095,565, and all the 1947 income-tax returns were not yet totaled. When they were, the surplus might be enough to cover both the $4.8 billion tax reduction and the $3 billion budget boost which the armed forces were asking...
...solution now proposed left some other questions unanswered. The trusteeship plan seemed to exclude the Soviet Union from the Middle East. The plan could be passed by a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly; a Russion veto could not kill it. The troops to police Palestine could be supplied by the Trusteeship Council. But where would the troops come from...
Republican leaders in Congress decided last week that the grave state of world affairs did not preclude income tax reductions. Hoping to make new witholding rates effective on May 1-even if a presidential veto had to be overridden to do it -the Senate plunged into debate on its bill to slash taxes by $4.8 billion. A handful of Democrats tried to stall the Republican timetable. Wyoming's Joe O'Mahoney proposed an amendment to restore taxes on excess profits. Arkansas' J. William Fulbright and South Carolina's Burnet Maybank, both irked because the House Agriculture...
...speech to Congress, which seemed to promise a baby armament boom, started stocks moving up. At the same time, the prospects for earlier passage of ERP promised a boost to sagging exports; and the hope that the income-tax cut could probably be passed even over a presidential veto promised to help business all along the line...
Jordan is upholding the United States' end on the Committee of Security and Politics and in discussions of the Veto Power. Meanwhile the two Wrights take to the rostrum over social, cultural, and humanitarian problems and over the present government of Spain and its international significance...