Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman's courage in opposing again a Congress plainly eager to demonstrate his ineffectualness is therefore laudable. The effect of his veto is likely to be the elimination of the import-fee amendment, and the final shifting of the burden to the Treasury. This act of sweeping the business out of public sight under the rug would obviously be no final answer to the wool wrangle. It would at least, though, spare America the irony of talking world stability up big at Geneva, while at the same time giving it a kick in the stomach long-distance from Washington...
Labor worked out a catchy name for it -the "slave labor" bill-and launched its campaign. To beat the bill, the A.F.L. alone poured $1,000,000 into newspaper ads, radio programs and mass meetings, all adding up to a demand that the President veto it. In Pennsylvania and Indiana, 17,000 of Jonn Lewis' mine workers walked out in protest strikes. From California, A.F.L. and C.I.O. delegates moved on Washington in a "veto caravan" of 100 autos; they hoped to stage an eleventh-hour demonstration at the White House...
Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, Eleanor Roosevelt cried out against the bill. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, his eye on the governorship, went so far as to proclaim a municipal "Veto Day." Two former chairmen of the old War Labor Board, William H. Davis and George W. Taylor, said the bill was unworkable. The National Catholic Welfare Conference (membership: all U.S. Catholic bishops) condemned it as playing right into the hands of Communists. The Communists cried that the bill was a sellout to reactionaries...
C.I.O. President Philip Murray sounded the deepest organ tones. When he arose to address a jampacked veto rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, his voice trembled with bitterness. The bill was "dastardly," "dangerously provocative," a "foul brew," he roared. "Our liberties are threatened by reactionary monopoly, driving us on the first long step toward domestic fascism. . . . From here henceforward, if this bill becomes law, the organized labor movement is on the defensive in this country. . . . Let us return to private life the backers of this ugly measure...
...Words. As he had before, Gromyko insisted again that the U.S. must destroy its stockpile of atomic bombs, and stop making them. He still wanted Russia and the rest of the Big Five to keep the ultimate right to veto U.N. punishment of nations caught violating world atomic rules. And, said Gromyko, there ought to be an International Control Commission which would "periodically carry out inspection of [atomic] facilities" in all countries...