Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lueas of Illinois. That vote, however, was taken just before an election and just after the entrance of the United States into the Korean war. It was a time of hysteria, a time when few men dared risk their political careers. The President asked for a better law; his veto message was a calm explanation of what was actually needed. During this next Congress, when there are no elections iminent, Democrats will probably follow his request on such legislation. But the Republicans surely will...
Since the McCarran Act was passed, it has been dissected and denounced by liberal and conservative publications all over the country. Even the Chicago Tribune wasn't sure it approved. It is the law which nobody wants, yet it passed through the Senate and over a presidential veto by a vote of 77 to 7, one of the largest margins by which a measure has been approved in the Senate, other than a declaration...
This week the deadline went by for all Communists to register under the McCarran antisubversive law, and not one U.S. Communist stepped forward to sign up. Nobody was really surprised. Hardly had the bill been passed over the President's veto than the New York Daily Worker called for a "people's veto," cautioned the comrades against registering...
...this week celebrated its fifth birthday. Most fitting anniversary present came from the member nations through their delegates in the Assembly. By an overwhelming majority in the Political and Security Committee, the delegates voted for the U.S.-sponsored resolution to give the veto-free Assembly power over a U.N. police force (TIME, Oct. 23). Henceforth, if action against aggression is stalled in the veto-bound Security Council, the Assembly can meet within 24 hours to set U.N. armed forces into motion...
...Jacob Malik exercised Russia's 44th veto to block a U.S. resolution: 1. Condemning Russia as the "real aggressor" in Korea...