Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week Congress had been tapping its foot, waiting for the President's veto of the McCarran anti-Communist bill. In the House, when the page boys burst in with mimeographed copies of the message, members grabbed eagerly at the bundles, helped pass them out. With little more than a glance, they began shouting: "Vote! Vote!" And minutes after the clerk had intoned Harry Truman's 5,500 words of warning, they had overridden the veto without a word of debate, by a thumping...
...Senate, half a dozen Democrats with the gravity of a band of martyrs had just made another kind of decision. They would try to filibuster long enough for the nation to wire its reactions to the presidential veto message. Perhaps an avalanche of emphatic last-minute protests, plus the Senate's desire to finish up and go home, might swing the votes necessary to uphold the veto...
...Humphrey, had voted for the bill in the first place) joined the filibuster. Obviously torn by the issues at stake, Douglas blurted: "In such imperfect wisdom as I have-and I say this with no sense of self-righteousness-I will vote to uphold the President's veto," and slumped into his chair with a groan...
...past five years, the Russian veto has blocked any Security Council action not to Russia's liking. The Council's decisive action on Korea was possible only because the Russians had walked out of U.N. (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.). Last week the U.S. gave its support to an old suggestion: shift some of the responsibility for the world's peace from the veto-bound Council to the veto-free Assembly. At the same time, the U.S. made a concrete proposal for the beginnings of a standing U.N. armed force...
...Senators McCarran and Kilgore and other eager helpers in both branches of the legislature, converted it into just that. The original security measures requested by the President are in the new bill, but they have been submerged in a flood of provisions that would, according to Mr. Truman's veto message, endanger civil liberties and interfere with the genuine security activities of the Government...