Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain feeling" that the departments should have "the power to make a recommendation." He said no steps had been taken at the meeting to determine the extent of this feeling, but he "didn't think anyone wanted to go so far as to give the departments a veto." Until February of 1961, when the present system was enacted, departmental control over the C.L.G.S. was strong enough to be described in this...
...Congress, that would permit self-employed people to take tax deductions on their own pension programs. President Kennedy did not like the bill, since it would mean an unscheduled loss of tax revenue. Smathers had a strong hunch that the President meant to let it die by pocket veto. But Smathers also knew that he had the votes to override any veto-so long as Congress stayed in session. He therefore fought a shrewd delaying action against adjournment-and Kennedy finally signed the measure...
...that the railroads claim costs them an unnecessary $500 million a year. Most of the time, it has seemed a losing fight. Last week in Washington the tide unexpectedly turned when a presidential arbitration commission decided that the Order of Railroad Telegraphers was unjustified in demanding the right to veto job cutbacks on the Chicago & North Western Railway...
...long run it marked a stunning setback for the telegraphers. A year ago, Leighty's union extracted from the giant Southern Pacific a virtual guarantee to keep on all its telegraphers until their death or retirement and, with that encouragement, the telegraphers have since demanded a veto over job cutbacks on 33 other railroads. Now Garrett's decision rather than the S.P. settlement will almost certainly serve as the precedent in future negotiations between the railroads and the telegraphers. More important yet, last week's ruling will weaken the hand of all rail unions in their fight...
January, when a measure to repeal the local veto power was introduced in the Massachusetts legislature, the Council passed a resolution opposing repeal an 8-1 margin. At that time, Councillor Andrew T. Trodden had asserted that the proposed Inner Belt route through Cambridge would "drive out many families and many thousands of tax dollars...