Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious villain was the veto. Among dozens of resolutions submitted, the one most strongly backed was a plan which had been devised by World Planner (and onetime Bridge Expert) Ely Culbertson. It was endorsed by 16 Senators and 14 Congressmen. It would eliminate the veto in matters of aggression. If the Russians refused to agree, the other nations of the world would set up a revised U.N. without them. Fired with enthusiasm, the Foreign Affairs Committee was all set to stamp it with approval...
That problem, Marshall declared, was one not of form but of substance. The veto was merely the expression of a larger obstacle to world peace-Russian intransigence. If the veto were banished from U.N., it would still exist in the world-as Russian armed force...
...Overrode (by 307 to 208) President Truman's veto of a bill which excludes certain newspaper and magazine vendors from coverage and taxation under the Social Security...
...Marshall Plan (China subordinated to Europe) ; a strong U.N. (he opposed the veto at San Francisco); the Taft-Hartley Act (except for the closed-shop, union political activity, and anti-Communist provisions); strong labor unions; tax reduction and debt retirement (any surplus split 50-50 between them); tax concessions for small business; Government controls on inventories, consumer credit, commodity speculation; a $1 billion-a-year Government housing program; rent control; FEPC; a modified U.M.T.; parity price support; admission of D.P.s...
...survival ... It is earnestly and with reason hoped that this will kill the thoughtless and irresponsible rumors of coming military conflict." A Munich housewife: "At last we will be permitted to play a German fiddle in this world orchestra." A Frankfurt photographer: "Here is one thing the Russians cannot veto...