Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee's self-perpetuating status, although unfortunate, was a necessary student concession to balance the grant of power they were to receive. But it was actually the Faculty directors who were using the fluid situation to consolidate their own influence. As before, they could ask the Faculty committee to veto any student proposal they coudn't themselves block. But now they could also affect the HDC's plans from the outset, either by argument, or by suggesting that the Faculty committee would veto a proposal...
...special benefits for HDC members: free tickets, lectures, a newsletter. The next week the constitution was ratified 39-1. An elected president was to represent the membership. At executive committee meetings, though, he would have no vote. An amendment set up an elaborate procedure allowing for a membership veto of proposed appointees to the executive committee...
Last week Rockefeller, who had been expected to veto the bill, joined a worldwide trend (TIME, April 2) by signing it into law with no further comment. At the same time, he planned to commute to life imprisonment the sentences of 17 of the 20 men now on Sing Sing's death row (three are convicted police killers). The death penalty already has been abolished in whole or in part in twelve other states-Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oregon, Rho.de Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia. With the addition of New York, abolitionists have won over...
...their own right-to-work laws banning union-shop contracts. Nineteen states* have done that, and of the entire Taft-Hartley law, 14(b) has become the section most odious to labor leaders. As a Congressman, Lyndon Johnson voted for Taft-Hartley and to override President Truman's veto. But last year, as he set out to gather votes from every segment of U.S. society, he made clear to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany that he would seek repeal of 14(b), saw to it that the pledge was written into the Democratic platform...
...been secretly selected by the P.R.I. party chiefs. Yet somehow it all works out fairly democratically, producing a metronomic swing from left to right in the P.R.I. governments. Argentina, in contrast, has the democratic forms without the music: in self-defense, the regime reserves the right to veto candidates backing exiled Dictator Juan Perón, who, were he permitted back, could make a Napoleonic return to power...