Word: amendable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret ballot, which is the heart of democracy. It is true that the vote was low;* there was considerable evidence that many had voted reluctantly. But a reluctant vote counts just as much as an enthusiastic one. The election was a decision, perhaps some day to be amended (as democracy can and does amend its choices), but an affirmative decision nevertheless...
...President saved his heaviest fire for S.2790, a bill "to amend the Servicemen's Readjustment Act." Said Truman scathingly: "For reasons which are quite understandable, the Republican leaders of the House of Representatives insisted upon calling this measure a 'housing bill.' " This "hasty patchwork," he said, failed to provide farm housing, slum clearance, financial aid for large-scale home construction, prefabricated housing, or low-cost rental housing. Cried Harry Truman: "In this case, as in many others, the 80th Congress has failed miserably...
Under Vandenberg's patient prodding, the Senate approved overwhelmingly, 64 to 4. The resolution was not binding on the President or on the country. Another Congress was free to amend, or even to reverse it. But for the first time in U.S. history, the U.S. Senate had approved, in principle, a peacetime military agreement with democratic nations on the continent of Europe...
...issue came to a head with the formation nationally of ADA, a specifically non-Communist organization pledged to the extension of "the Roosevelt-Willkie tradition." To join this group, HLU had to amend its constitution, and, further, join SDA (ADA's student branch), as individuals. This latter provision met with strenuous objection from the AYD sympathizers, but after several ballots the motion was passed and HLU settled into its current "Roosevelt-Willkie" tradition, joining SDA last fall. HLU's affiliation with this group is loose, the Harvard branch maintaining autonomy with occasional...
...first of all, the constitutional duty of the President of the U.S. to develop and propose a suitable policy. It was then up to the people's representatives in Congress. They would have to affirm, reject or amend the policy the Administration proposed. The next move was up to the Administration's operating heads in Washington. In the long run, the success of any foreign policy depended on its imaginative and energetic execution. As chief operating head of the State Department, execution was Bob Lovett's job. It was the job for which George Marshall had hand...