Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boycott was caused by Schmitz' veto of a Washington Department of Physics request that J. Robert Oppenhiemer '26 be invited to give a series of lecturers there this summer. At the same time that it asked scholars to end their boycott, the Washington faculty group voted, 56 to 40, to condemn Schmitz' decision to be Oppenheimer...
...M.I.T. Physicist Victor Weisskopf. Last week the university revealed that seven top scientists from Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard, the University of Wisconsin and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research would not attend a scheduled symposium on the "molecular basis of enzyme action." Reason: Schmitz's veto had "placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars." The big boycott hit the University of Washington where it hurt-right in its pride over its new, $12 million medical school. Said President Schmitz in his own defense: "I cannot emphasize too strongly that [the ban on Oppenheimer...
Only a small percentage of the 2,224 married University students who rent Cambridge apartments probably will have to face rent increases next year, even though the Massachusetts House of Representatives yesterday failed to override the rent control veto of Governor Christian A. Herter '15, it was learned last night...
Contrary to opinions which prevailed in the University following Herter's veto on Friday, no more than two percent of the students' apartments are now protected by rent control laws...
Thus the Big Three machine-tooled the veto formula that was to make possible the creation of the U.N., while making it impossible to put any real restraints on the only countries capable of world...