Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abolition of the United Nations Big Five veto power was defeated by the Debating Council in a meeting with M.I.T. Saturday night in the Eliot House Junior Common Room...
Edward F. Burke '50 and Jerrold P. Bahn '49 successfully upheld the negative of the question: "Resolved, That the veto power of the United Nations Big Five be abolished now." Judging the contest were A. G. Papandreou, instructor in Economics and Adam B. Ulam, teaching fellow in Government. This was the fifth Debating Council victory in the ten debates held thus far this fall...
...answer, the U.S. announced that it actually favored an East Coast site. Entering into the spirit of things, Great Britain scratched its Westchester entry, shifted its rider to Philadelphia. Angrily the Philippines' General Carlos P. Romulo cried: "Now we find the Soviet Union threatening a new kind of veto...
...Veto? What veto...
...state of the Advocate building. After the magazine folded, the grey Bow Street building was rented, in deference to the war-time housing shortage, in apartment lots to both married and unmarried tanants. Stringent OPA restrictions forbid the eviction of otherwise homeless tenants, and the University would probably veto the occupancy by students of a mixed-tenancy building...