Word: toomey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State representative John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), charged Tuesday that Harvard and M.I.T. had pressed their proposal for the Brookline-Elm St. route at a secret conference in 1959. He quoted Julius A. Stratton, President of M.I.T., as saying that he, Stratton, would use "all my influence" to block approval of the route along the railroad tracks which Toomey supported...
According to Whitlock, the conference that Toomey was referring to was a luncheon two years ago called at Toomey's request at which Stratton, President Pusey, and other members of the Cambridge Advisory Committee were present...
...charges about Harvard's role in the Inner Belt controversy came at the first day of hearings on a bill to repeal the veto power over Federal highway construction given to Cambridge and other Massachusetts communities last year. Toomey vigorously opposed revocation of the veto power in his speech Tuesday...
Because of the obvious dissimiliarity, Rep. John F. Thompson (D) of Ludlow, Speaker of the House, sent the bill back to the Committee and chairman, Rep. John J. Toomey (D) of Cambridge. Although passage of the "study" bill might precipitate sale of the yards, it is actually not necessary for the transaction...
Then there is a group, led by Rep. John J. Toomey and Councilors Thomas M. McNamara and Alfred E. Vellucci, which is dissatisfied with all existing routes. Tentatively, they have championed their own route, a wider Memorial Drive which would extend to the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway in Somerville. It seems likely, however, that this line would mean merely the addition of more traffic to an already saturated road...