Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move to override Gov. Peabody's veto of the PR-referendum bill fell one vote short of victory yesterday in the state Senate...
Yesterday's vote was 21 to 11 against the veto, with 17 Democrats and four Republicans opposing the Governor and five Democrats and six Republicans supporting him. Sen. Denis L. McKenna (D-Somerville), who filed the bill, moved reconsideration, which requires only a plurality to be approved...
Dana S. Hanson, executive secretary of the Cambridge Civic Association, predicted last night that the Senate will again uphold Peabody's veto unless a substantial number of absentee Senators join the bill's supporters...
Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 praised Peabody's veto last night, calling it an "enlightened action" that he thought would be sustained...
...bill's sponsor, Sen. Denis L. McKenna (D-Somerville) said last night that he saw "a fair chance" of obtaining the two-thirds senate majority needed to override the veto. If the bill clears the Senate, he added, there is "an excellent chance," that it will win the approval of the House...