Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again quoting your story, "In 1944, long-suffering Alben Barkley rose in the Senate to castigate Franklin Roosevelt's veto of the tax bill. He resigned as majority leader before he sat down. Knowland is unlikely to follow or even understand this example." The afternoon the veto reached the Senate, my brother, the late Senator Bennett Champ Clark, and his deskmate and close friend, Senator Byrd, called upon Senator Barkley . . . When Senator Barkley arose in the Senate to make the speech that ended with his resignation, he had already been assured by Senators Byrd and Clark that they...
...that the formation of the international agency remain contingent on the prohibition of atomic weapons. And they voted for the resolution despite the defeat of two significant amendments. One would have placed the proposed agency under the jurisdiction of the Security Council, thus raising the threat of deadlock by veto. A second amendment would have opened the international scientific conference to all nations, not just United Nations members, a proposal presumably designed to include East Germany and Communist China...
...Knowland practice to argue with Administration officials and then, if he must, publicly disagree. He takes his stand against the Administration without any apparent feeling for party cohesion. In 1944, when long-suffering Alben Barkley rose in the Senate to castigate Franklin Roosevelt's veto of a tax bill, he resigned as majority leader before he sat down. Knowland is unlikely to follow or even understand this example. He gets very little cooperation out of his fellow Republican Senators, partly because he displays no obligation toward the President or the party as a whole...
Five times in six days Vishinsky closeted himself with Lodge to discuss amendments to the atoms-for-peace plan. He wanted to make the atomic agency "responsible" to the U.N. Security Council; the Western sponsoring powers said no: that would give Russia a veto. Vishinsky wanted stipulations that negotiations for the atomic agency "should continue" with Russia. The West agreed. He wanted some phrases associating the international atomic authority with disarmament. The West worked out some suitably vague language, but refused a direct tie. "We think this atoms-for-peace proposal will lead the world away from war because...
...protest, the Brazilian Medical Association called a general doctors' strike for Dec. 6-three days before Congress is scheduled to consider the veto. The doctors said that only skeleton medical crews would remain on duty to handle emergencies. But the President held firm, relying on Congress to uphold his anti-inflation program. For the delegates to the Hemisphere economic conference in Rio this week, the doctors' dilemma was a capsule review of Brazil's financial illness and Café Filho's strong medicine...