Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat carried more moral force than military might. A Soviet veto could prevent punitive action by U.N. But the tone of the U.S. protest was proof of U.S. determination to take a stand in eastern Europe. If U.N. faltered, the U.S. would need to provide its own sanctions. Short of force the U.S., which shipped Yugoslavia $32,000,000 in wartime Lend-Lease, could hold up its share of the $100,000,000 in UNRRA supplies still undelivered to the Yugoslavs...
...When the Labor Secretary advised a veto of the Hobbs anti-racketeering bill, Harry Truman signed...
Along with the bills he signed, the President sent back 15 others with a veto. Among them: the Tidelands Oil Bill, renouncing federal claims to oil beyond the low-water mark, an issue the President thought the Supreme Court should decide...
...week's end, never-say-die Francis Walter asked the President "for heaven's sake" to veto the bill...
...part of it all was that President Truman, who had stood stoutly by States' Rightsman Pauley, was believed certain to veto the bill. He thought it a matter for the Supreme Court to decide...