Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman, throwing caution to the winds, decided to veto the bill, even though it meant an almost complete break with his party leaders in Congress...
...veto message was blistering. With one eye on politics, Harry Truman singled out and named his villain of the piece: Ohio's Republican Senator Robert Alphonso Taft. It was Taft's amendment providing price increases for manufacturers based on profits in prosperous 1941 (plus subsequent costs), said the President, which would "compel thousands of needless price increases amounting to many billions of dollars." This, wrote the President, was the "mainspring" of "an impossible bill" that "provides a sure formula for inflation...
...Veto. In Berlin, just as in New York's Bronx and in Paris, the letter V had come to stand for something besides Victory. Russia's Lieut. General...
While Russia used veto power to keep the Big Four from arriving at unity, she played 'another tune in her direct dealings with Germans. The Russians not only permitted Germany's right-of-center Christian Democratic Union Party to hold a meeting in Berlin; Marshal Sokolovsky held a lavish reception for the delegates. (They came from all over Germany except the French zone, where permission to attend was refused.) Russian Information Control Chief, Colonel Serge Tulpa-nov (who, like most Russian occupation officers, but unlike most Americans, speaks German fluently), said: "We Russians desire a unified and strong...
There was no veto to stop doubletalk...