Word: votes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bouncing the bill back to the Hill half an hour after it arrived, the President called House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana to insist upon another last-ditch stand such as Halleck staged to sustain the previous veto by one vote (TIME, Sept. 14). That upset victory had won Halleck a bottle of presidential Scotch; another, joked the President, would win a second bottle. Halleck swore to do his all, dutifully got off wires and cables to absentees, cracked the G.O.P. whip. But since their support of the first veto, a critical number of his hard-pressed Republicans...
Speaker Sam Rayburn, vindicated in his promise to "lick 'em" on the pork barrel, beamed broadly. Same day the Senate gleefully followed the House with a 72-23 vote to override, eight extra, and the bill became...
...Suntan Vote. Never before had a British party won three straight general elections without coalition support, but there was little doubt that Macmillan, a master of political maneuver, had chosen the top psychological moment. The Tories' Suez fiasco and its architect, Sir Anthony Eden, were fading into oblivion; the Macmillan government was basking in the new Anglo-American warmth generated by President Eisenhower's triumphal tour. Even the Queen's prospective baby and the sensationally brilliant summer seemed to count in the government's favor. Macmillan, complained Labor Party Chairman Barbara Castle, was "rushing...
...Icelandic-American Defense Council, and an Icelandic protest was handed to the State Department in Washington. With Iceland's elections scheduled for next month, the only gainer seems likely to be the U.S.-hating Communist Party, already third strongest in the land with i some 15% of the vote...
...kind of operation, but they were apparently argued down. The resolution was passed, with the provision that it was to apply for one year only, after which time the "experiments" would be thoroughly reviewed. Authorization to extend the Program beyond a year could come only from a new Faculty vote next...