Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Representative Celler of New York is the first member of Congress to call publicly for new legislation to replace the so-called publicly for new legislation to replace the so-called "Internal Security Act of 1950," passed overwhelmingly by Congress last week over the veto of the President. Celler has asked the Justice Department to draw up a communist-control bill of its own which could be presented to the legislators when they reconvene in late November...
...Unworkable" and "contrary to our traditions" are words used by prominent faculty members to describe the anti-Communist legislation passed Saturday over President Triman's veto...
...declined to comment on the bill until he had read it, while Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, who had returned from Europe only one hour before being reached for comment, did not wish to say more tan "I would entirely agree with Truman's veto and regret that the Congress saw fit to pass...
...Communism a clear and present danger, branded the basic aims of Communism as criminal in intent. It was aimed at Communists and their organizations and fronts, requiring them to register the names of their members and label their propaganda for what it was. President Truman said that he would veto it as an infringement of civil rights...
With the McCarran bill out of the way and the rest of its major chores all but completed, Congress was fidgety and anxious to be off for home and the hustings. But nobody dared leave until Harry Truman had made up his mind whether to veto of sign the anti-Communist bill; unless Congress is in session ten days after the bill goes to the White House, the President could quietly smother it to death with a pocket veto.† Between fidgets last week, the Congress...