Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miners had acted within an hour after the Senate voted the bill into law over the President's veto. At the grimy tipples from Pennsylvania to Alabama, they threw down their tools and stalked off the job, cursing the Congress. They had a slogan: "If they want coal, let the Senators...
...Debate. Harry Truman had no choice. Others did. Minutes after the Senate overrode the President's veto, the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel, Gerhard P. Van Arkel, resigned, declaring that he had "grave doubts concerning both the workability and the fairness of this...
Harry Truman sent his fifth veto* to the 80th Congress last week. This time it was the wool bill...
...76th veto since he took office. He vetoed 22 bills...
Another point for the cynics was that no real progress had been made in its most important project: atomic control. Still another: Russia had used the lethal veto ten times to block action in the Security Council...