Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breather (not a flat no-strike pledge) was two-edged. By it he hoped1) to save for labor some semblance of price controls; 2) to give the President something positive to say to Congress if, as expected, it sends him a tattered OPA bill he might be tempted to veto. The President thus might be able to say: I have a pact for a year's peace, for production's sake. Now give labor the assurance that rising prices will not nullify better wages...
...labor's turn to exert pressure for another veto. It was too soon for pious talk of peace...
...Failed by five votes (255 to 135) to secure the two-thirds majority necessary to override the President's veto of the Case permanent antistrike bill...
...Veto Trouble. Mr. Baruch said that if all goes well the U.S. will cease making bombs, "dispose of" existing bombs, and turn over its know-how to ADA. It will give up superiority in a gradual, step-by-step procedure if other nations sign the ADA charter-and if, in matters covered by the charter, they give up the one-power veto which now prevents penalizing any member of the Big Five unless all concur. Baruch proposed "condign punishments" for violations, which would be "stigmatized as international crimes." and he said that punishment must not be avoided by means...
Bernie Baruch finished his speech in an atmosphere of warm approval and high moral earnestness, but in hole-&-corner discussions among the delegates much criticism was directed at the veto clause, on the ground that it was "unrealistic...