Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Veto Hint. It was the tax credit that threw Democratic liberals together with Republican conservatives against the Administration. Kerr's stand against a move to kill the credit was supported, 52-30, with some vital help from Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (see cover story), who rounded up G.O.P. votes...
Reuther: You have no right to veto the choice of the C.I.O. group. The Communist allegations about Helstein's union were cleared up long ago. Besides, you permit Maurice Hutcheson [president of the A.F.L.'s carpenters union] to sit on the council even though he has been convicted of contempt of Congress...
...this point, Dave Dubinsky piped in with the suggestion that the two gladiators hold off and let their differences simmer until the next council meeting, scheduled for Washington in November. Thus the question of Helstein's nomination and Meany's veto was left riding. To newsmen next day Meany called reports of the argument "unscientific fiction . . . I don't think I ever called Reuther a liar. There are times that you say to a person that you think a statement they have made is not correct...
...framers of the United Nations Charter agonized over the consequences of allowing great states a political veto, but they hardly worried about a power that can paralyze the U.N. almost as effectively: the financial nyet...
Although many nations are behind in paying their regular annual share of costs (approximate total arrears: $5,000,000), the really critical deficit involves members' deliberate decisions not to pay "special assessments." Because they dislike U.N. operations in the Congo and the Middle East, voted by the veto-proof General Assembly, the Communist bloc has refused to pay its share of the annual $140 million price of troubleshooting in those areas. For their own political reasons, France, Belgium and most of the Arab states will not ante up for one or the other of these assessments. The $200 million...