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WASHINGTON, April 30--By four votes, House Democrats failed today in an all-out bid to break President Eisenhower's six-year record of never having a veto overridden by Congress...
...honest government-themselves picked up the arrogant tools of dictatorship. As its public urged them on, the Cuban rebel army shot more than 200 men, summarily convicted in drumhead courts, as torturers and mass murderers for the fallen Batista dictatorship. The constitution, a humanitarian document forbidding capital punishment, was overridden...
...China since 1949 remains constant. At the same time that America is considering toning down the embargo on goods to Red China, it plans to send an atomic missile unit to Formosa. If any lessening of tension might derive from the trade action, it will be negated, if not overridden, by the nuclear weapons base...
Predictions that draft calls would drop in the coming months were confirmed yesterday with the announcement that Secretary of the Defense Charles E. Wilson has overridden military protests and ordered manpower cuts of ten per cent...
...choking voice, told off Franklin Roosevelt for "his effort to belittle and discredit Congress." He concluded: "Mr. President, let me say . . . that if the Congress of the United States has any self-respect yet left, it will override the veto." The Senate roared, cheered and stamped. The veto was overridden in both houses. At a party caucus Barkley resigned as F.D.R.'s majority leader and, minutes later, was unanimously re-elected in a resounding vote of confidence in his independence...