Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary burden of responsibility for an illegal sale of alcoholic beverages to minors should rest with the vendor and not the minor unless the latter has falsified his age," the Governor said in his veto message...
Fitchburg Representative Joseph D. Ward, who introduced the bill, said last night that he had expected the Governor to request "a watered-down version" or veto the bill. "Apparently he learned that a watered-down bill would be unacceptable to legislative leaders, so he vetoed," Ward explained...
...University of Washington has been in commons and bitter uproar for two months over the ban on talks by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and the subsequent cancelling of two lectures and two scientific conferences. The faculty senate has condemned President Henry Schmitz' veto of lectures by the atomic scientist, students have petitioned, and Schmitz himself has refused to discuss his reasons for the ban. Efforts by some members of the faculty to find a compromise have now partially succeeded--with a two-sided statement expressing faith in the president as a supporter of academic freedom and disagreement with the decision...
Miller spoke at the Harvard Club of Seattle after receiving an honorary degree on April 5 from Gonzaga University in Spokane. He said that in Seattle there has been "immense public discussion" over Schmitz' veto of a request from the department of Physics to invite Oppenheimer for lectures this summer...
...Chinese, Malayan, Indian, Eurasian and European people of polyglot Singapore (pop. 1,200,000) went to the polls, where six political parties contended for 25 seats in a new Legislative Assembly, the winner to form a Cabinet and take over Singapore's internal administration-subject only to the veto of the British colonial governor. Often trailed by as many as four interpreters speaking Singapore's eight main languages, the 79 candidates ministered to curious, multilingual crowds with sound-truck orations, clanging gongs and cymbals, Chinese opera troupes, the reedy piping of snake charmers, and campaign promises that ranged...