Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White's opposition does not necessarily veto the MBTA switch. He said he will withhold his support of the purchase until the Boston Economic Development and Industrial Commission completes a full study of the situation...
...passed into law, the amendment might have its greatest impact on future programs in the South, where the governors of such states as Mississippi and Alabama would be comforted to know that they could veto civil rights actions by OEO lawyers...
Already lawyers in the South Florida Migrant Legal Services program are in trouble with Governor Claude Kirk. He threatened to veto the program when the OEO lawyers brought legal action on behalf of migrant workers against, among others, the Florida State Employment Service. In a compromise, the lawyers agreed to permit appointment to their governing board of more members who may not be sympathetic to such suits...
...respect for law among the state's rural poor, especially Mexican Americans. In 1967, the agency upset Governor Ronald Reagan when it won a suit to prevent him from cutting benefits for almost 1,500,000 people in the state's medical-assistance program. Reagan threatened to veto CRLA's aDoropriation but reportedly did not do so because OEO Director Sargent Shriver was prepared to override...
...mental health appears liberal, the problem in Massachusetts rests in the final clause. Boston hospitals vary in their practices, but most require the consent of two psychiatrists, the woman's gynecologist and the chief of the gynecology department before they will allow an abortion to be performed. A veto by one of these men usually means the rejection of the case...