Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next 30 Days. At the United Nations, the U.S. pressed hard for a border commission to keep an eye on Greece's boundaries with Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria during the next two years. Russia, hinting it might veto, managed to delay the U.S. proposal. Washington let it be known that the 2nd Marine Division and the 82nd Airborne Division in North Carolina were standing by. These two units should be enough to handle whatever forces General Markos Vafiades, the Communist guerrilla leader in northern Greece, had at his disposal...
...press only six times (F.D.R. averaged two conferences a week). On most of those occasions he had been closemouthed, cautious and clipped. Besides, Senate Minority Leader Alben Barkley had already popped the major White House news item of the week, when he announced that the President would again veto the income tax cut bill if it was anything like the first...
Sure enough, President Truman had his guard up. He said that Barkley was right about the veto, and let the matter drop. Other questions he answered briefly, parried or dropped with a "no comment." In seven minutes the conference was over...
This week, the Senate got down to voting on the income-tax reduction bill, which was repassed by the House last week with 26 votes more than needed to override the veto Harry Truman had promised (see The Presidency). When the vote came, it looked as though Harry Truman had won again. The vote, 60 to 32, was two short of the two thirds majority necessary to override...
Harry Truman's veto of the tax and labor bills had opened the 1948 presidential campaign with a bang. Last week, poll-taking Dr. George Gallup recorded the echoes...