Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Controversy has broken out in Cambridge over the proposed Inner Belt roadway, particularly the provisions of the 1961 Act giving nine Massachusetts cities and towns power to veto any construction planned under the multi-million dollar Federal Highway Program...
...vote of eight to one, the City Council yesterday joined Councillor Andrew T. Trodden in a resolution opposing any attempts to repeal the veto power. Senate Bill #103, which will be discussed this afternoon by the Senate Committee on Highways, makes such an attempt...
...Council's opposition to the Belt Route must be heard," Trodden asserted, "and the veto power is the only means of doing...
...Cold War out of the Congo, the UN had to assume responsibility for law and order and crush a Tshombe who refused to negotiate. Lord Home's government was thus both wrong and dishonest: its attempt to subvert a set of UN resolutions it hadn't the courage to veto is in itself an apt lesson in hypocrisy for the "reckless" anti-colonialists to ponder...
...Zeckendorf Property. Said Henry R. Moore, lanky director of Philip Hill and vice chairman of Second Covent Garden: "In the past. Father Zeckendorf has been inclined to take on more than he can handle." But now, said Moore, with enough British directors on hand to exert a veto, "we have effective control. Bill Zeckendorf may be management, but anything we don't like won't happen...